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HISTORY 



OF 



The iliddle Spring; 
Presbyterian Churcli, 

Middle Spring, Pa. 

1738=1900. 



BY 



Belle flDclkinne^ Iba^s Svvope 



"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, 

Their sober wishes never learned to stray; 

Along the cool sequestered vale of life 

They kept the noiseless tenor of their way."— Gray 



NEWVILLE, PA., 
TIMES STEAM PRINTING HOUSE. 



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To ijiy liusband 

Gilbert ]i. Suvpc, 

i>i loving friiiciiibraiu't 

of liis /oiid)uss 

for gowalogiail rcstardi. 



PREFACE. 

It was the desire of my husband, Gilbert E. Swope, author 
of "A History of the Big Spring Presbyterian Church," that I 
should publish the data he collected regarding the Middle Spring 
congregation, arranging the records according to the plan he 
outlined, thus completing, what to him was a labor of love. 
I have endeavored to carry out his wishes as nearl}' as possible, 
and it has been a pleasure to follow the guidance of one, who, 
though talented and successful in literary pursuits, willingly 
laid aside his pen, at a time when his career seemed brightest, 
reposing in me the confidence, that his cherished work would 
not fail of completion. 

We are convinced that nothing can be added to the historj- 
of the church life, so fully and excellently prepared by Rev. 
S. S. Wylie, in 1876. The book, however, is out of print, 
and as the result of a demand for a similar work, this vol- 
ume has been carefully compiled, and the archives of the con- 
gregation preserved in the form herewith presented. 

The records prior to 1800 were burned, but all that could 
be obtained, relating to the church during the nineteenth cen- 
tury, has been collected, and by research and diligent labor, 
valuable genealogical and historical data has been rescued 
from oblivion. No congregation that we know of, offered a 
greater number of brave men , to be sacrificed, if needs be, 
for the independence of our nation; no church has given more 
of her sons to the ministry, and no people are better fitted to 
defend the doctrines of Presbyterianism and the glories of the 
christian faith, than the adherents of Middle Spring. We 
gratefully acknowledge and express our appreciation of the 
interest and co-operation of Dr. William H. Egle, Rev. S. S. 
Wylie, and J. W. Strohm, who have rendered assistance in 
completing this contribution to the history of Cumberland 
\'alley. 

"Bdk IlTcKttiney Rays Swope, 
llewvilk, pa. 



1738=1900, 



Middle Spring 

Presbyterian Church* 



Sketch of the Church by Rev. S. S. Wylie. 



ftoch 
Yall 



aboriginal owners and occupants of Kit- 
toclitinny (now improperly called Cumberland 
dley)- -the word means "endless mountains" 
— were the Delaware tribes, called also Leni Lenapes. 
They held the country from the Delaware River to the 
Kittochtinny or North Mountain, and as far South as 
the Potomac. The Shawnese Indians, who moved 
North from Florida in 1689, it would seem also occu- 
pied a portion of this valley lying along the Conodo- 
guinet. Both the Delaware and Shawnese tribes were 
paitially conquered by the Six Nations, and removed at 
an early period to the banks of the Ohio. 

The Six Nations, called also the "United People", 
and by the French the Iroquois, were a powerful In- 
dian confederacy of at first five and afterwards six tribes 
who, in the earlier part of the last century, held undis- 
puted sway from the Atlantic to the great lakes of Erie 
and Ontario, and as far south as the head waters of the 
Delaware and Susquehanna. They gradually extend- 



6 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

ed their power over south-eastern Pennsylvania, includ- 
ing this valley. Partial treaties were made betw^een the 
Proprietary Government and the "united people" in 
1700, and at other subsequent dates; but it was not 
until October, 1836, w^hen there assembled in Philadel- 
phia, twenty-three chiefs of the Six Nations, that a full 
and absolute title to all the land west of the Susque- 
hanna, including our own beautiful valley, was granted 
to Thomas, John and Richard Penn, sons of William 
Penn. A copy of this deed is in the office of the Dep- 
uty Secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 
Settlements w^ere made in this valley several years pre- 
vious to this treaty. Scotch Irish settlements were made 
at Octorara Creek and at Pequea in 1717, and at Pax- 
ton and Donegal in 1722. John Harris came to the 
present site of Harrisburg, in 1725. On or before the 
year 1730, the Chambers brothers, attracted by the 
glowing accounts of the great springs and fine water 
powers of this valley, given by early adventurers, left 
their homes on Fishing Creek, a short distance above 
Harrisburg, and settled at three of the great springs ot 
the valley; Benjamin and Joseph at Falling Spring, 
James at Big Spring, and Robert at Middle Spring, on 
land now in possession of W. D. Means. 

From 1730 to 1736, the Proprietary encouraged im- 
migration to this valley, no doubt to hasten its posses- 
sion from the Indians. In 1734, a commission was 
granted to Samuel Blunston,, authorizing him to grant 
licenses, in writing, to settle land west of the Susque- 
hanna. They were an inception of title to much of the 
most desirable lands of this valley, with wliicli tlie In- 
dians were generally satisfied. This, wdth the suspen- 



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sion of the Maryland line controversy, and the acknowl- 
edged fertility of the soil, and the beauty and attract- 
iveness of the county, caused a rapid influx of inhab- 
itants, so that in 1736, the settlements extended from 
the banks of the Long Crooked River to the banks of 
the Potomac. There were small settlements of Ger- 
mans near Greencastle, and also along the w^est bank 
of the Susquehanna made at this time, with a Welsh 
settlement made on what is now^ called Welsh Run, in 
Franklin county, but with these exceptions, the whole 
Kittochtinny Valley was peopled by Irish and Scotch- 
Irish, or their immediate descendants, which was true of 
this valley up to 1750. 

We find, as might have been expected that one of the 
first arrangements of these early settlers, was to have 
the gospel preached in their midst. The most of them 
had been reared in the stimulating atmosphere of the 
Protestant faith; they had been taught to worship God, 
nor was the precious legacy of a free, unfettered relig- 
ion which they and their flithers purchased by blood and 
persecution, to be neglected or forgotten by them, 
though living in the midst of the hardships and perils 
of a life in the w^ilderness. We find that they soon 
made application to Presbytery for supplies to break 
unto them the bread of life; and the labors of these de- 
voted pioneers of the gospel, form the germs of the 
churches stretched tlirougliout this valley. 

In 17o2, Donegal Presbytery was formed by the 
Synod of Philadel})hia, tJie ecclesiastical jurisdiction of 
wliicli then included the country now comprised in 
Dauphin, Lancaster, Adams, York, Cumberland, Frank- 
lin and Perry counties. At a meeting of this Presby- 



THE MIDDLE SPRING 



tery, held at Nottingham, Oct. 16, 1734, there is this 
record: "Ordered that M. A. Craighead, supply over 
the river, two or three Sabbaths in November." Tliis 
is the first Presbyterial record of preaching in this val- 
ley, and Mr. Alexander Craighead, then quite a young 
man, has the distinguished honor of being the first pio- 
neer, who, by order of Presbytery, proclaimed Christ 
and Him crucified, among these hills and valleys. On 
two subsequent occasions he was sent on the same mis- 
sion. 

In 1735, Rev. John Thompson, was sent to the set- 
tlement along the Conodoguinet. He had formerly 
been pastor of Chestnut Level Church, but now seems 
to have been an itinerant in the employ of Donegal 
Presbytery. 

Rev. Samuel Gelston, who formerly had been settled 
at New London, Chester County, Pa., was in 1736, sent 
by Presbytery to O'Pekin, in Virginia, Conestoga and 
Conodoguinet. In this same year, Rev. William Ber- 
tram, then pastor of Paxton and Derry Churches, also 
was sent and preached along the Conodoguinet. This 
year — 1736 — supplies were first sent to "Conococheague 
settlement." I have little doubt but that some of these 
ministers, and it may be others whose names are lost, 
preached in this vicinity. Certain it is, that tliei-e were 
quite a number of settlers in 1736, stretched along the 
Conodoguinet and its south branch, and the same is 
true of Middle Spring, from its mouth to near its 
source. It was the almost invariable practice of the 
early settlers to locate along streams of water and gush- 
ing springs. This will account for these places being 
settled first. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 



The commonly accepted theory, in relation to the 
early history of this church, and one which has been 
generally believed, and consequently found its way in- 
to public print, is that this church does not date back 
prior to the year 1740, which is several years later than 
some others adjacent, and that Rev, John Blair was its 
first pastor, both of which are incorrect. 

In the early Donegal minutes, this church, with Big 
Spring, was called by the general name of ''Hopewell." 
To distinguish it |from Big Spring, which w^as called 
Lower Hopewell, this church was called Upper Hope- 
well. We learn from Ruj)p's History of the six coun- 
ties, that this valley in the year 1735, was divided into 
two large townships, by a line running north from the 
South Mountain, by the way of the Great Spring, to 
the Kittochtinny, or North Mountain; that the eastern- 
most was called Pennsborough, the western Hopewell. 
Middle, Rocky and Big Springs, were all in the limits 
of Hopewell township. In like manner, as the church- 
es of Carlisle and Silver Spring, fii'st took their original 
general name of Pennsborough from the name of the 
township in which they were situated, so Middle and 
Big Sjiring took their original, general names from the 
township of Hopewell, in which they were situated. 
So also the clnirches tlir(JUghout the Conococheague set- 
tlement, took their general name, Conococheague, from 
the name of the district, just as the Pennsborough 
churches were distinguished by Upper and Lower, and 
the West; so Hopewell was distinguished by Lower and 
Upper, by the flow of the water. Big Spring being 
called Lower and Middle Spring, Upper Hopewell. As 
additional evidence that these churches bore these 



10 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

names in their early history, we quote from the Done" 
gal records of 1739. "Nottingham, June 2, 1739.— 
Mr. Cavin is ordered to supply at Upper Hopewell: 
time not specified. 

"Chestnut Level, Sept. 5, 1739. — A supplication 
from the people of Hopewell, requesting supplies, was 
presented." 

"Conococheague, Nov. 17, 1739. — Mr Tliompson is 
ordered to supply at Lower Hopewell, on the last Sab- 
bath of this month." 

"Ordered that Mr. Anderson supply at Upper Hope- 
well tomorrow, and Mr. Boyd at Lower Hopewell to- 
morrow. Mr. Cavin to supply at Ui)per Hopewell the 
fourth Sabbath of December, the first Sabbath in Feb- 
ruary, and the the third Sabbath in March. Mr. Sank- 
ey at Hopewell^ the oth inst." 

A writer in an issue of the Presbyterian, of Feb. 15, 
1853, whose article In every other respect evinces much 
learning and accuracy, affirms that Middle Spring 
Church, in its earliest history, Avas called Upper and 
Big Spring Lower Hopewell. Webster, in his history of 
the Presbyterian Chuch in America, states the same. 
We are disposed to believe from some hints that Rocky 
Spring Church was also called by tlie name of Uppe?- 
FIo]3ewelI. Tlie Donegal records say : 

"Pequa, Oct., 1738. — Robert Henry, a conuuissionei' 
from Hopew^ell, complained that the people of Falling 
Spring are about to encroach upon Hopewell congrega- 
tion." This was in the matter of building a house of 
worship at Falling Spring, the old Presbytery rule being 
ten miles apart. Now it would be utterly absurd to 
suppose that the people of Big Sjiring, twenty miles dis- 



PEESBYTEEIAN CHURCH. 11 

tant, and great folly to suppose that the people of Mid- 
dle Spring, thirteen miles distant from Chambersburg, 
would complain of this matter to Presbytery. But if 
Rocky Spring was then called and included in Hope- 
well charge, the explanation is plain enough, as it was 
but five miles distant from Falling Spring. In that 
year Rocky Spring had been granted by Presbytery the 
privilege of erecting their first house of worship on the 
ground it now occupies for that purpose, and for Falling 
Spring to erect their house five miles distant would be a 
proper ground of complaint to Presbytery as an en- 
croachment upon their congregational territory. Again 
Richard Webster in his history in speaking of Rev. John 
Blair, incidentally remarks that Rocky and Middle 
Spring were both called Upper Hopewell. 

We are, we think, warranted in the conclusions, that 
Big Spring was in its early history, called Lower, 
Middle Spring Upper Hopewell and Rocky Spring 
perhaps the same, and the general name, Hopewell, des- 
ignated them ;ii!. These conclusions are important in 
determining who was the first pastor. 

The first pastor of this church, in connection with 
Big Spring, was Rev. Thomas Craighead, wdio may also 
have preached at Rocky Spring. At a stated meeting of 
Donegal Presbytery, held at Chestnut Level, April 6, 
1737, Robert Henry, the Commissioner from Hopewell, 
asks for the services of Mr. Thomas Craighead as stated 
supply, which was granted. "Nottingham, June 22nd^ 
1737. — The people of Hopewell request of Presbytery 
the privilege of making out a call to Mr. Thomas 
Craighead." "Derry, Nov. 17, 1737. — A call was pre- 
sented to Presbytery by the people of Hopewell for the 



12 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

services of Mr. T. Craighead, which was accepted by 
him." 

He was not installed as pastor over the people of 
Hopewell for almost one year after this date, or until 
the second Tuesday of October, 1738, and for two 
reasons: The first was that there existed difficulties in 
settling theboundery lines between Hopewell and Penns- 
borough, and erection of one of the houses of Hopewell 
Tlie second was that Mr. Thomas Craighead had, with- 
out consulting his session, suspended his wife from, 
"church privilege" because she failed to live in peace in 
the same house with her daughter-in-law. He did not 
live to enjoy his labors in this charge quite seven months, 
but died in the last of April, 1739. 

The reasons which have led to the conclusion that he 
was the properly constituted minister of more than the 
church which is now called Big Spring, are these : 

First. Every other minister contemporaneous with 
him, had charge of from two to four congregations. On 
Mov. 15, 1732, Kev. William Bertram w^as installed over 
Paxton and Derry. On Nov. 14, 1739, Rev. Samuel 
Thompson was ordained pastor of Upper and Lower 
Pennsborough. Rev. Samuel Cavin, from Nov. 15, 
1737, acted as stated supply to all the churches of the 
Conococheague settlement until Nov. 16, 1739, when he 
was installed pastor of Falling Spring and Greencastle. 
If, therefore, Mr. Craighead was pastor only of Big (for 
that was then called Lower Hopewell), this is the only 
exception throughout the valley. But where is the 
evidence that at this time Big Spring or any other church 
near us had the means and the population to support a 
pastor herself ? 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 13 

Second. There is strong evidence to believe that Rob- 
ert Henry, who, at this time and on various occasions 
acted as commissioner for Hopewell to Presbytery, be- 
longed to Upper and not to Lower Hopewell. 

Third. There is good evidence for the statement that 
at that time (1738) this section of the Valley, between 
Shippensburg and the North Mountain, was as thickly 
settled as almost any other portion of it. It is a matter 
of history that the first land in this valley taken up un- 
der the *'Samuel Blunston license" was by Benjamin 
Furley, and afterwards occupied by the Herrons, 
McCombs and Irvins, a large tract lying along the Con- 
odoguinet, in the direction and in the neighborhood of 
Orrstown. 

At the house of Widow Piper, in Shippensburg, as 
early as 1735, a number of persons from along the Con- 
odoguinet and Middle Spring, met to remonstrate against 
the road wliich was then being made from the Susque- 
hanna to the Potomac through "The Barrens," but 
wanted it mnde through the Conodoguinet settlement, 
which was more thickly settled. This indicates that at 
this time a number of people lived in this vicinity. 

Fourth. A writer, whose name we are ignorant of, 
in an old, religious newspaper, in an article entitled, 
*'The Three Springs," uses these words: ''The congre- 
gation beyond the Susquehanna which first settled a 
pastor, was callen Upper and Lower Hopewell. His 
name was Thomas Craighead." 

Fifth. Rev. Richard Webster, in speaking of these 
three churches, in connection with Rev. John Blair, 
says: "These places had been served by the Rev. 
Thomas Craighead." To any thoughtful, unprejudiced 



14 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



inind, the evidence is sufficient that Thomas Craighead, 
at this church, as well as at Big Spring, pointed men to 
the cross, and that these churches were honored above 
any others in this valley, in having first the "ministry 
of the word." 

After the death of Mr. Craighead, Hopewell charge 
"was supplied by Donegal Presbytery." Rev. Samuel 
Thompson, James Anderson, Samuel Cavin, and Rich- 
ard Sankey acted as supplies in 1739. Shortly after 
this, or in 1741, occurred the first and lamentable rup- 
ture in the Presbyterian Church of America. This 
schism grew out of the conflicting views of the great re- 
vival which in 171)2 commenced in New Jersey, and in 
a short time swept over most of the Atlantic States: some 
ascribing it to God as a genuine work of the Spirit; oth- 
ers looked upon it as a work of man and the devil ; 
some said it was of the head; others of the heart. 

Another cause of this schism was the conflicting views 
of the standard of education to be insisted upon of can- 
didates for admission into the ministry. The one party 
at first more numerous, and in most respects the more 
rigid in their views, composed of the S3aiod of Philadel- 
phia, were called the "Old Side." The other party, at 
first represented by the New Brunsw^ick Presbytery, and 
afterwards by tlie Synod of New York, were called the 
"New Side," or "New Sights." 

This painful schism sent a plouglishare through all 
the churches, and the "Tliree Springs" were no exception. 
A majority of the people of these tliree congregations, as 
^vell as a majority of the people of the other churches of 
the valley adhered to the "New Side." The Old Side 
party in these three churches had, for a time, the ser- 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 15 

vices of Rev. James Lyon, a probationer of Donegal Pres- 
bytery. The "New Side" had the services of Rev. James 
Campbell — the unconverted minister — and he was fol- 
lowed by the eloquent, pathetic Welshman, the Rev. 
John Rowland. 

On December 27, 1742, Rev. John Blair was installed 
pastor of the Middle Sjjrino- Church, in connection with 
Big Spring and Rocky Spring. The old session records 
of his ministry, though very largely occupied wath wdiat 
might seem to many, petty cases of discipline, and though 
not giving his first name, throws some light upon the 
division of his labors among these three congregations. 
The record says the "ministers labors shall be equally di- 
vided, a third [>art to each place, as being most for the 
glory of God, and the good of his people." 

While pastor of this church he purchased and owned 
the farm adjoining jNIiddle Spring church lands. Here 
it is said he and his wife, a Miss Durborrow, of Phila- 
delphia, lived in a style quite above that of their plain 
countrified parishioners. The people, it is said, were 
ver}^ kind to Mr. Blair and his young wife, so tliat they 
often had a superabundance of the good things of this 
life, but it is added that tliis kindness took a more sub- 
stantial form, viz: Several of the prominent men of the 
church met, among whom were David Herron, John 
Finley, Jolm Reynolds, and John JMcClay, and deeded 
to him a farm, then owned by the cliurch, of from two 
to two hundred and fifty acres, with the explicit under- 
standing that Mr. Blair, would stay and preach foi- 
them his lifetime, but Mr. Blair being a shrewd, covet- 
ous, worldly wise man, sold the farm, placed the money 
in liis pocket, and then soon left the chui'ch. This tra- 



16 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

dition has floated down the stream of time, and is now 
believed by many in this community. There is, how- 
ever, not the shadow of a truth in the story, and hag 
the effect of tarnishing the reputation of an otherwise 
good, zealous and godly minister. There is a patent 
recorded, Dec. 4, 1753, taken out by John Blair, to 
secure a warrant for two hundred and twelve acres of 
land, dated October 5, 1743, situated in the manor of 
Louther, Liincaster, afterwards Cumberland and Frank- 
lin counties, by virtue of which, Thomas and Richard 
Penn deeded this same farm to John Blair, in consid- 
eration of £32 17s. and half penny "quit rent" due 
each year. This farm he held for seventeen year.- 
and sold it to Samuel Eippy. The exact date of his 
leaving this field of labor, is involved in no little uncer- 
tainty. Seeing he was never a member of the Donegal 
Presbytery (because he belonged to the New Side party) 
its records in no way assist us, and the minutes of the 
New Castle Presbytery, (New Side,) the one to which 
he belonged, are so far as can be ascertained, hopelessly 
lost. Webster, in his history, and Sprague, in his "An- 
nals of the American Pulpit" who (piotes from "Web- 
ster's manuscri|it, both give the date of his leaving the 
" Three Springs" of Dec. 28, 1748. The last record in 
the session book of liis ministry kept for this church, is 
dated Fel). 1, 1794. There is, on tbe other hand, evi- 
dence which favors a much later date as the correct time 
of his leaving this church. There are in existence two 
receipts the first one reads tlius- - 

Received of John Jolinson tlie just and full sum of 
two pounds, fourteen sliillings, being four shillings over 
liis full su])scrij>tion for these live years last past. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 17 

"Nov. 24, 1747. by me, John Blair." 

A second — 

Sei)t. 11, 1757, received from John Johnson, two 
pounds, two pence, which appears to me to be in full of 
steepens due Kev. John Blair, ''by me, David Megaw." 

A careful reading of these two receipts indicates a 
much later date than 1748 as the time of Mr. Blair's re- 
signation. If he left Middle Spring in 1748, then his 
life for ten years until 1757, the date of his settlement at 
Faggs' Manor, is a blank. Neither Hodge, Alexander, 
Sprague or Webster, who refer to him in their histories, 
throw any light upon this period of his life. Is it like- 
ly that this man in the prime of life and in the full 
possession of his many talents, could or would have re- 
mained in idleness these many years ? Is it not more 
reasonable to suppose that he was still laboring in the 
vineyard of the Lord ? Again, Sprague, Webster and 
Alexander assign as the only cause of his leaving this 
field to be " trouble with the Indians." But any one 
conversant with the history of those times, is well aware 
that throughout this valley in 1748 there was scarcely an 
Isolated Indian murder. Dr. Alexander in his history of 
the " Log College" in speaking of Mr. Blair uses this 
rather striking language: "By reason of the hostile 
incursions of tl»e Indians, his peojile were obliged to 
leave their rude habitations on tlie frontier, and retreat 
into the more denseh^ populated parts of the colony. 
Mr. Blair never returned to the place from which he 
was driven b}^ the incursions of the savages. Such 
language does not comport with the events of the year 
1748. But we all know after the disastrous defeat of 
Braddock, on the Dth of July 1755, and tlie retreat of 



18 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Dunbar, the tardy, this Valley, in every part, was swept 
by fire and sword, and scalping knife and tomahawk of 
an exultant foe, when thirteen-hundred and eighty-four 
refugees were huddled together in the fort at Bhippens- 
burg, and seven hundred families left this valley and 
their all, for their lives, and removed to Lancaster and 
York Counties, Pa. Dr. Alexander's description of the 
cause of this leaving, corresponds exactly to the period 
of 1755 and 1756. It can perhaps never be definitely 
settled when John Blair left the Valley, but the vveight 
of evidence seems to favor a later date than 1748. 

After he left, these churches were supplied by mem- 
bers of the New Castle Presbytery (New Side) up to the 
date of the re-union in 1758. Amongst these were 
some very distinguished men: Rev. Joseph Tate, the 
eloquent John Strain, Rev. Andrew Boyd, Rev. Charles 
Beatty and Rev. Gilbert Tennent. 

At a meeting of Donegal Presbytery in 17G0, Middle 
Spring Church, (first time this name is given on Pres- 
])ytery records) presented a call to Rev. John Carmichael 
of New Brunswick Presbytery. This call was never 
accepted. 

The Presbytery of Donegal met at Chanceford, June 
18, 1705. A call was brought in from the congregation 
of Middle Spring, to Robert Cooj)er, a probationer, and 
a supplication to Presbytery, praying them to present 
said call. Messrs. Campbell and Benjamin Blythe, 
Commissioners from Middle Spring, informed Presby- 
tery that for Mr. Cooper's sujiport the congregation 
"will make good to him the sum of one hundred i)ounds 
per annum, (|250.00.)" 

At Marsh Creek, Oct, 7, 1705, Mi. Cooper accei)ted 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 19 

this call, and ordination exercises were appointed him 
at a meeting of Presbytery at Middle Spring, Nov. 21, 
1765. No objections having been pr(?sented against 
Mr. Cooper being ordained and installed pastor of the 
chnrch, Presbyteiy concluded to proceed thereto, and 
accordingly, after Mr. Bay had preached a sermon on 1 
Corinthians, 9: 16, "Woe unto me if I preach not the 
Gospel," and after the engagements taken in due form, 
Mr. Cooper was solemnly ordained to the gospel minis- 
try with fasting and prayer, and the interposition of 
hands of the Presbytery, and installed as pastor of the 
congregation. 

In this, his first and only field, he labored as pastoi' 
over thirty-one years, although the inscription on his 
tomb stone gives a longer period. Tliis is because he 
continued to live in the bounds of the congregation nine 
years after his resignation, during most of which time 
the church was vacant and he acted as ])astor. 

In the autumn of 1796, at a meeting of Presbytery at 
Middle Spring, Dr. Cooper resigned the charge of this 
rhureh. The Presbytery deferred action, until the fol- 
lowing spring, hoping that the strange brooding melan- 
choly, which at this time overwhelmed his mind in 
gloom, occasioned by a dropsical habit, might pass away; 
l)ut at the spring meeting of Presbytery, held April 12» 
1797, Mr. Cooper, renewed liis application and the 
congregation thrtjugh liis commissioners, Benjamin 
Blythe and Col. R(jbert Peebles, reluctantly concurring, 
the relation was dissolved, the congi-egation agreeing to 
pay his full salary and besides deal generously with 
him. 

As pastor of this church, he peilbi-med his labor ^^ 



20 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

with great fidelity, usefulness and success. The con- 
gregation prospered greatly under his ministry, and at- 
tained at its close, great size. He watched over his 
flock, over which the Holy Ghost had made him over- 
seer, with uncommon solicitude and care, as a father 
over his child. He, pastorially, as well as socially, vis- 
ited systematically, his large field again and again, and 
was usually accompanied in this work by his faithful 
and loyal wife. He took speciaL interest in, and pains 
to catechise the young. In his social intercourse with 
his people, be was remarkably free and jocose, and be- 
ing the happy possessor of an abundance of Irish wit 
and humor, his visits were prized at every house and 
around every festive board in his congregation. He 
was blessed to an unusual degree with the unwavering 
affection of his people, to the close of his life. He liv- 
ed and owned the farm a short distance south of New- 
burg. This farm he purchased of John Trimble, on 
the 7th of June, 1776, and then contained two hun- 
dred and seven acres and seventy-four perches. The 
stone end of the farm house, adjacent to the road, is 
said to have been built by the congregation for him. 
His personal a])pearance was not prepossessing; of 
medium stature, of five feet ten inches, of a thin, spare 
liabit; his face, except when animated, wore a sad mel- 
ancholy aspect, in the latter years of his life. He al- 
ways wore a large wig. Often in the warmer weather, 
he would take ofl his wig, hang it upon the wall imme- 
diately behind him, lay aside any outer apparel whicli 
would trammel his delivery, and with all possible ear- 
nestness, press liome the trutli upon his hearers. It was 
customary, during the greater portion of his ministry 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 21 

to give out one line of the Psalm at a time; afterwards, 
the leader of the sino-ino; being uro;ent, two lines were 
given out. When the Psalm books were introduced, 
quite a serious difficulty sprang up in the congregation, 
which lasted more than one year. Some of the "pious 
old folks" contended as they could not read the Psalms 
very well, they might commit a sin, whereas, when Dr. 
Cooper read for them, they kn^w it was right. 

More than one amusing anecdote has been rescued 
from the oblivion of the past, which incidentally throws 
not a little light upon the history of the day of Dr. 
Cooper. One is here given. — He had the custom of 
calling the roll of the church members every Sabbath 
morning, and noted the absentees, whom he visited the 
following week. He also required his members to sing 
a Psalm each Sabbath morning, going regularly through 
the book. Now on communion Sabbath — solemn days 
were those — David Herron's name was called, (he w^as 
one of the most regular, reliable and godly members of 
Dr. Cooper's sirision,) but there was no response. 
Amazed, the Dr. stood in silence. The clerk rose at 
his desk and called again, David Herron ! No answer. 
Early the next morning, the Dr. was seen trotting 
briskly up the creek; he was hailed by Capt. Hugh 
Brady, Capt. Strain, Archie Cambridge, as he passed 
in turn their houses, but there was no stopping him: on 
he went until he reached the house of Mr. Herron, and 
passed rapidly in, and meeting Mr. H., said, in his un- 
varnished way, "not at cliurch yesterday, what is your 
excuse? "Well Doctor," said Mr. H,, "you know your 
rules. Yesterday morning I got up a little earlier than 
usual; ate a little breakfast, read a short chapter, then 



22 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



we kneeled and said a short prayer, and I commenced 
with the family to sing a Psalm, the one in course being 
the 119th. I could not violate your rules; I could not 
pass over it: I did my best but was not able to finish it 
until in the afternoon.'^ Hereupon the Dr. arose, ad- 
justing his wig, and placing his hand upon the shoulder 
of his faithful elder, said: "David, your excuse is a good 
one. I am })erfectly satisfied," and then rode home. 

From the end of Dr. Cooper's ministry in this church, 
until the commencement of Mr. Moody's, there was a 
period of six years, during which the Middle Spring 
church was supplied by members of the Carlisle Presby- 
tery. 

By appointment of Presbytery, Mr. IMoody first 
preached at Middle Spring, on the fifth Sabbath of 
November, 1801. On the 12tli of April, 1803, a call 
was presented to the Carlisle Presbytery, by this church 
for the pastoral services of Rev. John Moody, promis- 
ing him the sum of £175. Mr. Moody accepted this 
call, and arrangments for his ordination and installation 
were at once made. He was appointed to prepare a ser- 
mon on Rom. 13:10, and Presbytery adjourned to meet 
at Middle Spring, on the first Tuesday of October, 1803, 
when after his examinations were ajiproved. Rev. Josh- 
ua Williams, D. D., preached tlie sei-mon and Rev. Dr. 
Robert Cath cart, gave the charge to the pastor. He was 
solemnly set apart to the gospel ministry by prayer and 
the interposition of liands of the Presbytery and in- 
stalled over the church. He resigned the charge at the 
spring meeting of Presbytery, April 1854, 

During the history of this long but quiet, harmonious 
ministry, little of striking interest lias fallen under 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 23 

observation to be recorded. In the year 1806, difficul- 
ties sprang up between ;Dr. Moody and many of the 
people on the subject of baptism, which found their way 
into Presbytery. It would seem that Dr. Moody had 
been rather strenuous on the subject of baptismal vows. 

It was during his ministry in 1833, the Presbyterian 
churches of Newburg and Roxbury, were organized by 
persons who had become more or less alienated from Dr. 
Moody and the people of Middle Spring Church. The 
causes of their temporary organization, were these: 1st, 
— The effects of the revival in the Middle Spring 
church in 1832, caused by the preaching of Duffield 
and others. 2.— The attempted introduction of Watts' 
Psalms and Hymns into the church. 3. — Prayer 
meetings. Mr. Moody held that leading in prayer by 
laymen, engendered spiritual pride. 4. — Mr. Moody's 
neutral position on the temperance question, which was 
then very prominent. Other minor family matters also 
entered in. This organization had an up and down 
existence for about 12 years, when it died out, and the 
remaining members of it, returned to the old fold. 
During this period. Rev. Joseph McKee, was called 
April 11, 1838, by this organization, but was never in- 
stalled. On Oct. 1, 1839, Rev. Geo. D. Porter was 
called and installed over this field. He resigned April 
13, 1843. He was the only settled pastor of the New- 
burg and Roxbury churches. It was during his min- 
istry, that the Presbyterian Church of Sliip])ensburg, 
was organized, — a necessary outgrowth of Middle 
Spring. 

In the earlier part of Mr. Moody's ministry, many of 
the families of the church, living in Shi[)pensburg, 



24 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

desired a portion of his service. This was never coun- 
tenanced by a majority of the people, and was never 
granted. They then, after the removal of Rev. Mr, 
Walker, pastor of the Associate reformed Church of 
Shippensburg, sought a union with that church, with 
the understanding that all parties assist in the remodel- 
ing of the house, and in supporting a minister, who 
was to be selected either from the Presbyterian or asso- 
ciate Reformed church, according to the leadings of 
Providence. 

Under this arrangement, the Rev. H. R. Wilson was 
called in 1823, and the following families left thin 
church: D. Henderson, Maj. Joseph McKinney, Geo. 
McGinnis, D. Nevin, Wm. Snodgrass, John McClay, 
the Cochrans, the Rippies. B. Reynolds, S. Sturgeon, 
J. Oris well, George Hamil, David Mahan, and others. 
Rev. H. R. Wilson was succeeded by Revs. Dr. Har- 
per, W. W. Taylor and W. A. McCarrell. 

Dr. Moody presented a fine personal appearance, ful- 
ly six feet in height, with a weight of over two hun- 
dred pounds, of fair complexion. During the warm 
weather of the summer season, he would, while in the 
pulpit, wear a long, loose gingham gown. One who sat 
under the sound of his voice for twenty years, uttered 
these three striking sentences: "I never saw him excited; 
t never saw him preach in the Middle Spring Church, 
without the use of his manuscript; I never saw him lift 
his hand to make a gesture." He was remarkably order- 
ly in all his work. His marriage, comnumicant and 
baptismal ceremonies, were models of neatness and scru- 
pulous care. His brief funeral addresses were always 
to the living. His sermons, though delivered in a slug- 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 25 

gish manner, were full of pith and instruction to the 
hearer. 

The last public act of Dr. Moody was attempting to 
hold a short prayer meeting during a communion season 
in Middle Spring church, but through frailty of mind, 
he was unable to properly conduct it. His last official 
act in the congregation and his five hundred and ninety- 
fourth wedding, was to officiate at the marriage of Mr. 
William Ker, of the Big Spring congregation and Miss 
Elizabeth Orr. 

Dr. Moody resigned the pastoral charge of the Mid- 
dle Spring church, June 11, 1854. It was his desire 
for the congregation to take immediate steps to secure a 
successor. In accordance with this wish they invited 
and heard a number of candidates, and with one voice 
chose Rev. I. N. Hays as pastor. On June 13, 1854, 
Mr. Hays was installed pastor of this church, having 
previously been released from the charge of the Great 
Conewago church, Adams county. Pa. Here he contin- 
ued his labors fourteen years and five months. This 
church at that time presented a wide field for usefulness. 
The field was white to the harvest. The results of fifty 
years' sowing were to be reaped. The church was 
in pressing need of an earnest, laborious, practical self- 
adapting man, and in the providence of God, as history 
has plainly demonstrated, the right man was found for 
tlie right place, A reformation in the manner and cus- 
toms of the people, as well as in the discipline and polity 
of the church was needed, and the session of the church 
turned with anxious eye to the pastor of the Great 
Conewago Church, as the instrument under God by 
whom this great work was to be accomplished. 



26 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

For four years after the commencement of his minis- 
try here this church enjoyed a continuous revival, dur- 
ing wliich time there was scarcely a day he could not 
have gone to some anxious, inquiring soul. In these 
four years one hundred and forty persons were added 
to the membership of the church. During all his min- 
istery here a very fair average of additions were made — 
twenty-three by certificate or examination each year. 
The church trebled her benevolent contributions, which 
were perhaps unduly directed to the Foreign Mission 
work. The bounderies of the congregation were ex- 
tended; regular preaching was established each alternatt^ 
Sabbath afternoon at Newburg andOrrstown. These soon 
became important outposts of this congregation. 

A number of families and individuals were brought 
into the church. They were of an element entirely out- 
side of the Presbyterian faith. I doubt not that dur- 
ing these fourteen years, the very heart of his life and 
ministry, and the vigor and flower of his manhood, the 
great spiritual work of his life was accomplished, and 
Providence opened up another field near by, upon 
which he at once entered. 

After the resignation of I. N. Hays, Middle Spring 
Church remained vacant for one year and a half, though 
the pulpit was usually occupied. Several attempts were 
made to secure a pastor, but on account of division of 
sentiment in the congregation and other causes, tliesc 
attempts proved fruitless, until the autumn of 1869, 
when Rev. D. K. Richardson was called, and having 
accepted, commenced his labors Jan, 1, 1870, and was 
installed May 6th of the same year. He resigned the 
pastoral charge Dec. 21, 1871. The first year of the 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 27 



labors of Mr, Richardson in the Middle Spring church, 
was one of great discouragement, which arose from an 
absence of the convicting and converting presence of 
the Holy Spirit, and disharmony in the church. Dur- 
ing the latter part of this year, things became more set- 
tled, and there was an increased interest in the preach- 
ing of the word. On the third Sabbath of January 
1871, during the afternoon service at Newburg, the 
presence of the Spirit became manifest. It proved to 
be the Prophet's cloud from the sea, and the harbinger 
of a gracious revival, which extended pretty generally 
through the congregation, and resulted in the accession 
of forty -seven persons to the membership of the church. 
During his ministry here the church was no doubt 
greatly benefitted spiritually. The pastor was growing 
in favor each day with the people, and we have no 
doubt the dissolution of this pastoral relation was the 
saddest and most unex[)ected in the history of the 
church. This took place December 21, 1871, he having 
received a call iv-.nii the church at Greencastle, Pa. 



REV. SAMUEL S. WYLIE. 

llev. Samuel S. Wylie was licensed by the Presbytery 
of Ohio (now Pittsburg,) April 28, 1809, and was in- 
stalled pastor of the Middle Spring Church June 9. 
1872. 



28 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

PASTORS OF THE MIDDLE SPRING CHURCH, 



To the feet of the One Great Teacher 
They tenderly led the way. 



REV. THOMAS CRAIGHEAD 

Rev. Thomas Craighead belonged to a family of min- 
isters. He was a son of Rev. Robert Craighead, a native 
of Scotland, and a brother of Rev, Robert Craighead, jr., 
who was moderator of the Synod of Ireland. Thomas 
was born in Scotland and read medicine there, but af- 
terwards studied theology under his father in Derry. 
He was licensed to preach the gospel, and was ordained 
and settled some ten or more years in Ireland. In 
consequence of a number of grievances to which the 
Presbyterians were subject, such as "oppressive rents," 
"the sacramental test" and the "marriage ordinance," he 
joined a company and came to America. He first set- 
tled at Freetow^n, Mass., but became dissatisfied because 
of a want of sufficient support. In January 1724 he 
became a member of the New Castle Presbytery and 
accepted an invitation to ]H-each at White Clay Creek 
and Brandy Wine. In 1733 he was called to Pequea, 
Pa., where he was very active in gathering up new con- 
gregations. He was released from Pequea Sept. 19, 
1736. At a meeting of Presbytery Oct. 27, 1737, he 
was appointed a supply to Conodogninet for six months. 
The following year he was called to sui)ply the ]ieople of 
Hopewell, but was not installed until Oct. 13, 1738, on 
account of the difficulty in locating the church on tlie 
Big Spring and a trouble in his own flimily; having, 
without consulting his session, suspended his wife from 
churcli privileges, because she failed to live in peace in 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 29 

the same house with her daughter-in-law. Mr. Craig- 
head was now well advanced in life, but lie still preached 
with great power and impressiveness. Under his dis- 
courses the people very often deeply and powerfully 
moved, and often when dismissed they were unwilling 
to leave. On one of these occasions, near the close of 
April, 1739, during a communion season at the Big 
Spring Church, when having preached until quite ex- 
hausted, he waved his hand, being unable to pronounce 
the benediction, and exclaimed, "Farewell, farewell," 
fell to the floor and expired in the pulpit. He was bur- 
ied beneath the pulpit in which he died. 



REV. JOHN BLAIR, T). D. 

Rev. John Blair was born in Ireland in 1720 ; came 
to this country wdien quite young, and it is thought his 
father settled in Chester County, Pa. He and his 
brother Samuel received their classical and theological 
education under William Tennent at the Log College at 
Neshaminy, Bucks County, Pa. He was licensed to 
preach by the Newside Presbytery of New Castle, and 
was ordained pastor of the congregations of the Three 
Springs, Big, Middle and Rocky, Dec. 27, 1742. Just 
when he left this charge is uncertain. It was, how- 
ever, in 1 757, or prior to that time, as in that year he 
accepted a call to Fagg's ]\[anor which had become va- 
cant by the death of his distinguished brother, Rev. 
Samuel Blair. Here he continued for ten years, taking 
the place of his brother as pastor of the church and 
principal of the classical school which his l)rother had 
conducted. In 1767 he was chosen to fill the newly 
founded chair of divinity in Princeton College, and was 



30 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

also chosen vice-president, and was its acting president 
until Dr. Witherspoon entered upon his duties in 1769. 
It soon became evident that the fund contributed to en- 
dow the chair of divinity was insufficient for the sup- 
port of the professor. Accordingly Dr. Blair resigned 
his position and accepted a call to Walkill, Orange 
county, N. Y., where he continued until his death, De- 
cember 8, 1771. He is said to have been a "judicious 
and persuasive preacher, and through his preach- 
ing: sinners were converted and the children of God 
edified." Fully convinced of the truth of the doc- 
trines of grace, he addressed immortfil souls with a 
warmth and power which left a witness in every bosom." 
He married the daughter of John Durbarrow of Phila- 
delphia. 



REV. ROBERT COOPER, D. D. 

Rev. Robert Cooper, was born in Ireland about 1732. 
His father died when lie was a child, and at the age of 
nine, he came witli his mother and two sisters to Amer- 
ica and settled in Lancaster county. Pa. Like many 
others, he was greatly indebted to the energy and econ- 
omy of an excellent mother, for obtaining an education, 
and manifested his appreciation of the same, by his 
affectionate, filial devotion. He prepared for college 
under Rev. John Roan, pastor of the New Side congre- 
gations of Paxton, Derry and Mt. Joy, entered Prince- 
ton College and graduated September 1763. He stud- 
ied theology with Mr. Roan and Dr. George Duffield, 
of Carlisle, was licensed by the Presbytery of Donegal, 
Feb. 22, 1765, ordained and installed pastor of Middle 
Spring, November 21, 1865. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 31 

Dr. Cooper had a good library for his day, a part of 
which had been selected and purchased for him in Scot- 
land, by Dr. Witherspoon. He was a well read theolo- 
gion and noted for being a theolooical instructor. A 
number of young men read theology with him, who 
afterward attained distincti(Mi in the church. They 
were Dr. John McKnight, Dr. Joshua AVilliams, Dr. 
Francis Herron, Dr. Matthew Brown, Dr. David Mc- 
Conaughy, Rev. Samuel Wilson, and others. Dr. 
Cooper was moderator of the United Synod of Phila- 
delphia and New York, in 1775, and was a member of 
the committee to prepare rules for the government of 
the assembly in 1785. He married Elizabeth Kearsley, 
of Carlisle, by whom he had two sons and two daught- 
ers. One son died in infancy. The other son John 
had charge of Hopewell Academy. Dr. Cooper died 
April 5, 1805, and is interred in the lower grave yard 
at Middle Spring, where the first log cliurch was built. 



REV. JOHN MOODY, D. I). 

Rev. John Moody was born July 4, 1776. His father, 
Robert Moody, Esq., was a native of County Derry, 
Ireland, and emigrated to this country about 177o, and 
settled in Cumberland County, Pa. He married in 
1775, Maiy Hutchinson, and afterwai-ds moved with hi> 
family to that part of Lancaster County now known as 
Dauphin County. There the son Jolin prepared for 
college in the grammar school of Francis Hindman. He 
entered the junior class of Princeton College Nov. 1794, 
and graduated in September, 1790. He commenced 
the study (jf theology under his pastor. Rev. James 
Snodgrass, August, 1799, and was liccensed bv the Pres- 



32 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



bytery of Carlisle, Oct. 9, 1801. He spent one year 
and a half in supplying vacant churches, and preaching 
in destitute places, under the direction of Presbytery. 
On April 12, 1803 a call was presented from the Mid- 
dle Spring church, which was accepted and he was or- 
dained and installed Oct. 5, 1803. He continued pas^ 
tor of this church for over fifty years, resigning April 
14, 1854. "Dr, Moody was a man of a meek and quiet 
spirit, patient under opposition and even injury, and 
always a lover and promoter of peace. He was tall of 
stature, of stately personal appearance, dignified and 
gentle, manly in his deportment, polite and courteous 
in manner, a man of sound, practical judgment and 
methodical and industrious in his habits." As a 
preacher he was logical, instructive and practical. His 
manner in the pulpit was quiet, dignified and solemn. 
He always wrote his sermons in full and preached from 
the manuscript. His sermons were finished in st3de and 
he was eloquent and imiiressive in their delivery. He 
received the title of D. D., from Washington College. 
He married April 1, 1802, Miss Elizabeth Crawford 
and had four sons and four daughters. Dr. Moody 
died Oct. 7, 1857 and is buried in the upper graveyard 
at Middle Spring. 

REV. ISAAC N. HAYS. 

Rev. Isaac N. Hays was a son of John and Orpha 
Hays, and was born April 17, 1827, near Cannonsburg, 
Pa. He was the oldest of three brothers, all of whom 
have risen to prominence in the Presbyterian Church, 
He graduated from Jefferson College, June, 1847 and 
from the Western Theological Seminary in 1850. He 
was licensed April 15, 1850 by the Presbytery of Ohio, 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 33 



ordained Oct. 10, 1850, by the Carlisle Presbytery and 
installed pastorofthe Great Conevvago Church. Mr. Hays 
ministered to the needs of the people and labored zealous- 
ly for the welfare of thecongre2;ation. He spent four years 
in this field, and resigned in 1854 to accept a call to the 
Middle Spring Church. He served fourteen years ot 
acceptable ministry, increased the financial condition 
of the church, and beloved for his many sterling quali- 
ties, he withdrew from the congregation of Middle 
Spring, and was installed pastor of the Central Church 
Chambersburg, which charge he held until June 1874. 
He received a call from the Presbyterian Church at 
Junction City, Kansas, and left the Cumberland Valley, 
bui the drought and grasshopper plague which befell the 
west, prevented his acceptance of the call, and in 1875 
he returned to Pennsylvania, and took charge of the 
State Normal School at Shippensburg. In 1878 he 
severed his connection with the school and began his 
pastorate in the Central Presbyterian Church, Allegh- 
eny, Pa., where he successfully labored for ten years, 
when he resigned and ministered to the Westminster 
congregation, Allegheny, until the time of his death 
May 23, 1894. He received the degree of D. D,, from 
Washington and Jeflerson College. He married Dec- 
ember 17, 1850, liebecca King, and had three sons and 
five daughtei's, one of whom Calvin C. Hays succeeded 
his father in the gospel ministry and is an earnest, per- 
sausive witness for C'hi-ist. 



IIKV. D. K. RICHARDSON. 

Rev. D. K. Hichardson was boi'n in Tuscaravvos ih. 
( )liio, Januarv 7, 183(). His father was for a numlx-i 



34 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



of years an honored elder in the Presbyterian Church, 
He graduated from the Western Theological Seminary 
in the spring of 1863, and was licensed to preach by 
the Presbytery of Maumee, at West Liberty, Ohio, 
April 30, 18(33. He was ordained as an evangelist at 
Napoleon, Ohio, November 22, 1864, and for six years 
labored as stated supply to several charges in the north- 
western part of the state. On January 1, 1870, he ac- 
cepted a call to the church at Middle Spring, and con- 
tinued his ministry there until December 21, 1871, 
when he was called to labor at Greencastle, Pa. His* 
death occurred August 20, 1877, and not only the 
people of Greencastle, but many who knew his worth, 
mourned his removal as a great loss to the church. He 
married Miss S. L. Hosack and had five children, four 
sons and one dauditer. 



EEY. SAMUEL S. AVYLIE. 

Eev. Samuel S. Wylie was the youngest son of David 
and Harriet B. AVylie, and was born December 2, 1844, 
three miles from the town of Washington, Pa. He was 
early consecrated to God and brought up from infancy 
in the princij)les of our holy religion. He worked up- 
on his fathei-'s farm until the age of sixteen, when he 
was sent to the preparatory department of Washington 
College, where, he spent two years, and entered the 
Freshman class of the same institution. In the year 
1867 he was graduated from tlie United College of 
Washington and Jefferson, and in the autumn of the 
same year entered the Western Theological Seminary, 
from wliieh he was graduated April 1870. He was 
licensed by tlie Presbytery of Ohio (now Pittsburg), 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 35 

April 28, 1869. The summer of 1870 he spent as 
stated supply to the churches of Cherry Tree, Unity 
and Bethesda, in Indiana County, Pa., and on October 
28. sailed for Scotland. He spent the winter of 1870 
and 1871 at the Theoloo'ical Seminary of the Free 
Church of Scotland in Edinburg. He returned to 
America 1871 and on June 11, 1872 was ordained and 
installed pastor of tlie Middle Spring Church, where he 
remains at the present time. 

The fact that Mr. Wylie has remained pastor of this 
historic and intelligent congregation for more than a 
quarter of a century is conclusive evidence of his sound 
common sense, his great prudence, his sterling 
piety and his warm and devoted aifection for his people. 
Had these attributes of character not been his, it wouldl 
have been impossible for him to maintain his pas tor a/ 
relations with a congregation that had been moulded by 
a Dr. Cooper and a Dr. Moody, for almost a century . 
Lt is true, conditions have changed since the days of 
these good men. Mr. Wylie did not find a community 
composed altogether of Scotch Irish Presbyterians who 
knew nothing else than the Presbyterian Church, as was 
the case during Dr. Cooper's pastorate and most of Dr. 
Moody's. A new element was there, which n(jt being 
Presbyterian, required ])]'u<lence and tact to bring into 
the church. These conditions were early recognized by 
Mr. Wylie, and adapting himself to them, by modern 
methods of churc]i work, lias kept the churcli active and 
zealous in every good work, and still in advance of thr 
other denominations that surround them and occupy 
the territory at one time exclusively Presbyterian. Mid- 
dle Spring Clujrch, witli its wings, occupies an extent <>f 



;]6 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

country from Shippensburg to the north mountain, and 
from near Strasburg to Gre^n spring, with preaching 
|>oints at Middle Spring, Newburg, Orrstown and Rox- 
l)ury. 

During a pastorate of twenty-seven years Mr. Wylie 
])as been indisposed only one Sabbath, has dehvered 
■)500 sermons and addresses, admitted to the communion 
of the church an average of seventeen per year, preaeli- 
ed three hundred and fifty-nine funeral addresses, and 
the congregation has raised for benevolence, improve- 
ments and salary, forty-seven thousand dollars, the 
inemV)ership of the church being two hundred. Mr. 
Wylie married Jane Miiry ^IcCune, who died Jan. 22. 
1897, leaving three children Harriet Ann, Eva McCunc 
and Samuel D. On the 9th of Feb. 1899, Mr. Wylie 
sailed for Europe and sj)ent six months abroad. He land- 
ed at Naples, Italy, and visited the now voiceless city of 
Pomj>eii. and the active volcano (►f Vesuvius. He took 
ship for P^gypt, spent some time in the city of Cairo, 
and continued his jonrney to Palestine. Five weeks 
wei-e passed at Jerusilcm, Jeriflio, IV.'thany. lielhleliem, 
Shechem, Xa/,arerb. Dattnseus and histoi-ic j)i;u'es in the 
valley of tln^ Jordan. l*'i-om tiic Moly Land, he visit;'d 
in turn ilir classl-- ciiy of Ath(:ns. Uoiiic, \\Miic(', Paris. 
London and ciinc Ihmik,' refreshed and strengiliened 
for the dniics of life and the labors of liis ininisreria! 
<-allin-. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCUI. 37 



THE GLEBE. 



Life's curuioil in eiurli ye;ir tlvat i»asse,s, 

Fails not upon tliis sacred ,spot. 
And silently the slender s'^ii^j^es 

Wave over }>:iths too soon foro;ot. 

On the 27tli of May, 17()7, there was surveyed and 
sold to Francis Canipl^ell, Robert Chambers, AVilliam 
Duncan and John ^laclay a tract of hind situated in 
Hopewell township, Cumberland County, Penna., called 
"Mount Hope." This tract of land was in the shape of 
a wedge, the head extended along tlie Middle Spring, 
beyond the old graveyard, and the sharp point reached 
almost to Means' run in the direction of Shippensburg. 
It contained forty-nine acres, a hundred and ten perches, 
for which the State of Penna., received the sum of £9 
and 19 shillings. The patent bears date Sept. 17, 1790, 
and in Nov. 179o, the above mentioned men deeded the 
land to the trustees of the Middle Spring Church. 

On December 3, 181)), nine acres and nine perches of 
this tract, were sold at public auction to Mr. Sanuiel 
(*ox for ll^iO.OO per acre, the })urcliase included the 
water right, as well as the land lying along Middle 
Spring. Twelve years later, Mix 10, l<S2r), twenty-four 
acres and fifty-three ])erches of the remaindei- were 
i>i)uglit by Afr. George Deihl tor the sum of $48().(:)2. 
'llw ground on which tlie ]);irsi>nuge was built, with the 
lower jtart of the sul>j()iiie(l lots, was never sold and be- 
longed to the patent of 1790. 

The central and upper ])ai'ts of the thi'ee lots were 
>old l)y th(^ ti'iistees, but lattr wei'e i'e-[)urchased by the 
eliiireli. The central one of the three |)arts was pur- 
chased of the trustees by (Jeoi-ge Delhi; this Jvevi 
1 )eiiil. his exeeiitor, sold to Diiiicl livers, who later 



38 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

sold it to Mary Cox ; she sold it to John Cox. The 
next purchaser was Mr. Wonderlich for Wm. Culp and 
on Oct. 16, 1854, through R. S. McCune it was bought 
back again for the church. |600.00 was paid for this 
including the sexton's house. 

Sixteen of the original forty-nine acres of the Glebe 
lands are now in possession of the Middle Spring con- 
gregation. From the elevation, the greater part of the hnid 
overlooks a stretch of country unsurpassed in beauty 
and fertility, with farm houses dotting the liillsides ; a 
ridge of mountains to the south-east, over which the 
sunbeams climb to greet the day ; and a similar crest on 
the northwest, behind which the shades of evening fade 
away. Around the old graveyard winds the Middle 
Spring, its sunlit waters leaving a silvery trail over 
stones and mosses, blending with the gentle breeze a 
whisper of music which hovers above the sleeping place 
of the dead. To those who slumber here, we owe a 
<lebt of gratitude for selecting a spot so beautiful and 
worthy of admiration, on which to coiisecrate a house 
of worship. Loyal to their ( Jod and their church 
are the descendants of those staunch Scoth Irish pion- 
eer defenders of the faith, who so nobly im- 
planted the seeds of Pres])yterianis!n in the Cmnber- 
land valley. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 39 

CHURCH BUILDINGS. 



Few congregations in the Cumberland Valley, are so 
highly favored as Middle Spring, in being able to deter- 
mine definitely, the date of the erection of their first 
church building, and ascertaining its dimensions. We 
are indebted to an old Carlisle newspaper, for the fol- 
lowing historical data. " In 1738 the Presbyterians liv- 
ing in the vicinity of Middle Spring met to devise a 
plan for building a church, and the result of the con- 
sultation was the erection of a log building about thirty- 
five feet square, at the gate of the old graveyard, near 
the bank of the stream.," From this meagre descrip" 
tion we allow imagination to picture the house in which' 
our fathers worshiped. The earth constituted the floor 
rude benches made from slabs, were all the congrega-, 
tion had to sit upon during the long service ; the pulpit 
high against the wall, with the precentor's desk beneath ; 
no heating apparatus ; the primitive style of the early 
settler demanded no decorative art to adorn the house of 
God. This building continued to be used as a place of 
worship until 1765, when it was replaced by a second, 
similar in style to the first, but its dimensions increased 
to forty-eight by forty-eight feet, the site of which was 
the same as the original I02; buildiuii". Owino' to the 
rapid increase of the congregation, due to emigration 
and the popularity of Dr. Cooper, a short time prior to 
the Revolution, this second building was enlarged by 
additions on the sides and b}' a gallery, which was 
reached by two flights of stairs on the outside of the 
building. It was from the top of this stairway that Dr. 
Cooper, with his sword thrown over his shouldei-, by 



40 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

stirring appeals in behalf of their country's needs, fired 
the patriotic blood of the brav^e men of 7(3. 

The following has been handed down as having oc- 
curred during one of these addresses. An old lady in 
the audience after listening to the Doctor for some time, 
finally being unable to restrain herself longer, cried out, 
"Mister Cooper. Mister Cooper, if you had lost two as 
purty boys as I have in the w^ar, you wouldn't talk that 
way, but you would go yourself." The Doctor seemed 
to act on the suggestion and later entered the service as 
chaplain, 

Nothing is known of the internal appearance (»f the 
church except that the pulpit was of walnut and an un- 
usually fine piece of w^orkmanship for that period. 
When the church was torn dow^n the pulpit was pur- 
chased by Samuel Cox, Esq., and converted into a table 
which yet remains in his family. About the year 1781, 
the old stone church was erected, the site of which was 
just beside that of the present building. This w^as still 
larger than its predecessor, being fifty-eight by sixty- 
eight feet, and was necessarily so, by reason of the rapid 
increase in population. It was two stories in height, 
with the roof resting upon tJie walls, having at first no 
roof stool. This caused the north wall to bulge some 
six inches, and to remedy this a row of long pillars 
reaching from tlie fioor to the ceiling, a distance of 
rliirtv-five feet, were ]>laced across the entire building. 

A gallery extended ai-ound the tlirec sides of the 
house, at a distance of eleven feet from the main fiooi'. 
Under llie gallery for its siip|)Oi't stood a I'ow of eight 
pillars, besides those that stood against the wall, fou]' 
in nnmlx'i. ( )n the north side of the elnireii were two 



PRRSBYTERIAN CHURCH. 41 

large windows to the right and left of the pulpit, each 
contained one hundred panes, with shutters which 
reached half way up. Three large panels, finely orna- 
mented in the style of the time, with a brass knob 
adorning the centre of each, for the minister's hat, 
stretched between the two windows back of the pulpit. 
On the west and east sides were three windows and a 
door below, and four windows above. On the south 
side there were two doors and four windows below and 
six windows above. One large aisle ran through the 
church from east to west, while two others opened into 
it from the doors on the south. The goblet-shaped pul- 
pit was reached by a flight of ten steps, in which stood 
a bench for short preachers. Immediately above was 
the sounding board, surmounted by an acron whose 
green "leaves faded never." 

Underneath the pulpit stairway was a small cupboard, 
and at the foot of it stood the precentor's desk, the plat- 
form being raised one foot above the level of the church 
floor. Immediately in front of the pulpit was the large 
chancel in which were placed the communion tables, 
and on the minister's right were the seats for the mem- 
bers of session. The seats in this church were forty-six 
in number on the main floor, and thirty in the gallery, 
straight back and high. The whole interior of the 
building was of the finest carpenter work, performed by 
James Cooper and John Thompson. This part of the 
work cost about £939. The entire outlay for the build- 
ing, besides voluntary work, amounted to £1,310 and 
16 shillings. The wood work in the interior was painted 
white, with the exception of the pews, which were un- 
painted. Originally the audience room was heated with 



42 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

two stoves, but in 1824 three more were added. On 
the outside of the church, one of the stone steps adja- 
cent to the south corner was of limestone, while those 
nearest the west corner were of sandstone. A row of 
locust trees ran along the front of the church, between 
which were benches of ash slabs, where relatives and 
friends gathered at intermission, to exchange salutations 
and discuss matters of mutual interest. 

The present Presbyterian Cliurch building of brick 
was erected in 1847, and in November was dedicated, 
when the Rev. John Moody offered the dedicatory 
prayer. In the year 1858, during the pastorate of the 
Rev. I. N. Hays, the edifice was enlarged by an addi- 
tion of twelve feet at the south end, which gave a larger 
vestibule, a prayer meeting room, and increased the 
seating capacity of the audience room. The expenditure 
with the cost of heaters in the basement, amounted to 
^2,500. In the spring of 1871, during the ministry of 
the Rev. D. K. Richardson this same house of worship 
was remodeled at a cost of |4,666.00. The pulpit was 
lowered, the gallery taken away, the lecture room en- 
larged and the interior frescoed and carpeted in a 
modern and admirable manner. Again in 1891 the 
church edifice was repaired at a cost of !|800.00. The 
present parsonage was built in 1855, on a part of the 
Glebe lands, and is a large, commodious brick dwelling, 
containing nine rooms. The cost of the parsonage was 
$2,500.00, the grounds $1,200.00, the stable !$;j;bO.OO. 
Total expenditure |4,000.00. The following is the 
list of a hundred imd thirty subscribers to the stone 
church built in 1781. Capt. Samuel McCune heads the 
list with a subscription of £40. The pulpit built in 
178(3 was the result of contributions amounting to £66 
($165 00), donated by the women of the congregation. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE OLD STONE 
CHURCH, BUILT IN 1781. 



Capt. Samuel McCuiie. 
Capt. William Kippey. 
John Reynolds, Esq. 
Robert Culbertson. 
Richard Rodgers. 
William Duncan. 
Samuel Cox. 
Alexander Sterrett. 
Thomas McComb. 
John Maelay, Esq. 
John Maelay, jr. 
Daniel Duncan. 
Capt. Samuel Blythe. 
Samuel Rippey. 
Oiarles Maelay. 
John McComb. 
Adam Cunningham. 
John White. 
Daniel Nevin, 
William Young. 
Thomas McClelland. 
Benjamin Allsworth. 
John Barr. 
Samuel Barr. 
James Henderson. 
Capt. Joseph Brady. 
John McKnight._ 
John Cambridge. 
James Woods. 



Gavin Morrow. 
William Sterrett. 
James McKee. 
Capt. John McKee. 
Robert Donovin. 
Andrew McFerran. 
Abraham Weir. 
James Patterson. 
John Strain. 
Capt. Wliliam Strain. 
Thomas Pomeroy. 
Francis Campbell. 
Capt. Matthew Henderson. 
John Campbell. 
David Porter. 
Peter Dickey. 
Capt. Robert Peeldes. 
Robert Means. 
William Barr. 
James Caldwell. 
Benjamin Disert. 
Francis Nesbit. - 
AVilliam Montgomery. 
Samuel Ha una. 
James McCune, Esq. 
Robert Peebles (mountain.) 
Adam McCormick. 
William Trimble. 
Thomas Snodgrass. 



44 



THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Archibald Malian. 

David Bimrall. 

John Heap, Esq. 

James Sharp. « ,. 

Samuel Hanna. 

John Hanna. 

Andrew Thompson. 

William Woods. 

Hugh Brady. 

Hugh Wiley. 

Thomas Montgomery. 

William McComb. 

David Wills, Sr. 

David Wills, Jr. 

Henry Mahon. 

David McKinney. 

Col. Isaac Miller. 

James McClelland, 
\} John Herron, Esq. 
\/Maj. James Herron. 

Alexander Donnell. 

John Culbertson, 

James Cummins. 

Robert Sterrett. 

James Sterrett. 

Elizabeth Hamill. 

David Herron. 

John Brumfield, 

James Young. 



Ebenezer Brady. 

John Duncan. 

Francis Graham. 

Andrew Murphy. 

Thomas Barr. 

John Johnson. 

Col. James Dunlap. 

Capt. Robert Quigley. 

Robert Shannon. 

John Simrall. 

Arichibald Johnston. 

William Turner. 

James Cooper. 

John Thompson. 

Robert Clark. 

John Robinson. 

John Snoddy. 

David Mahon. 

Robert Donovin. 

Robert Tate. 

Samuel Crawford. 

Jean Kearsley. 

John Quigley. 

Rev. John Craighead, pas- 
tor of Rocky Spring 
Church. 

Gen. John Armstrong, he- 
ro of Kittaning. 

Samuel Rippey, Sr. 



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45 



Samuel Willierow. 
John Watson. 
Andrew Ralston. 
AVilliam McClintoek 
Jacob Keyser. 



Col. Robert Peebles. 
Col. Benjamin Ely the. 
James Lowry, Esq. 
George Johnston. 
John Knox. 
James Brox. 



NAMES OF WOMEN WHO CONTRIBUTED TO 
THE PULPIT FUND IN 1786. 



Eleanor Maclay. 
Agnes White. 
Sarah McKibben. 
Mary Keppels. 
Margaret Allswoilh, 
Rebecca McDonnell. 
Sarah Strain. 
Jean Linn. 
Grizy Linn. 
Susanna Linn. 
Jean Linn, Jr. 
Mary Pomeroy. 
Elizabeth Strain. 
Isabella Futhey. 
Mary Grimes. 
Jean Clark. 
Jean Sterritt. 
Ann Sterritt. 
Mary Duncan. 
Susanna Barr. 
Mary Barr. 
Mary Sharp. - 



Eliza Duncan. 
Martha Simrall. 
Rebecca Simrall. 
Mary Anderson. 
Margaret Rippey. 
Hannah Reynolds. 
Mary Sterritt. 
Jean Brady. 
Jennett Martin. 
Ann Spear. 
Eliza Cunningham. 
Sarah Robinson. 
INIargaret Barr. 
Elizabeth Brumferd. 
Mary Quigley. 
l/^Iartha Skinner, 
Mary Quigley. 
Margaret McCollum> 
Sarah Britton. 
Jane Mahon. 
Peggy Lee per. 
>^Mary Peoples: 



46 



THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Sallie Reynolds. 
Jane Dunlap. 
Isabella Rippey. 
Margaret Rippey. 
Jane Cooper. 
Eleanor Maclay. 



Elizabeth Cooper. 
Sally Herron. 
Mary Herron. 
Jennette Irwin. 
Jean Mahon. 
Jennett Alls worth. 



# 



PRESBYTEEIAN CHURCH. 47 

RULING ELDERS OF THE MIDDLE SPRING 
CHURCH. 



Next to their pastors, whom they consulted on all 
temporal affairs, the people valued the bench of elders, 
the ''helps ordained of God," who exercised an oversight 
of the flock, and to whom, as unto friends, were sub- 
mitted disputes between man and man, questions in- 
volving the rights of property and the rights of char- 
acter. This is the explanation of so many trial cases of 
various kinds found in the old session books of all our 
churches, and we doubt not, the results were satisfactory 
for the most part, and usually in accordance with the 
moral law of God, to the saving of public exposure of 
character and impoverishing Jawyers fees. Honest and 
upright weie the men who co-operated with the pastors 
of this church and moulded the characters of those 
who lived within its bounds. Diligent laborers in the 
vineyard, by their walk and conversation, they led the 
flock to the living fountain of spiritual grace, and 
strengthened the inborn Scotch Irish Presbyterianism of 
the community The first elders of the church of whom 
we have an account were the following, ordained in 
1442, 

John Reynolds, a public magistrate who lived in 
Shippensburg ; Capt. John McKee, who lived near 
Newburg, and commanded a company in the Rev- 
olution ; Allen Killough who lived on the Ridge road ; 
David Herron, one of the grandest men of his day : 

The following v^^re ordained in 1744: 

John Findley, who lived, it is probable, on the farm 
owned by John Mateer; William Anderson, who lived 
on the Rido-e road. 



48 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

The following were ordained in 1747 : 

John Maclay, who lived near Roxbury, and Thomas 
McComb, who lived near Orrstown. 

The following acted as elders during the ministry of 
Dr. Cooper, dates of ordination unknown. Col. Benja- 
min Blythe, who lived at the head of Middle Spring — 
was a noted Indian and Revolutionary soldier ; Francis 
Campbell, who lived in Shippensburg, a man of the 
finest literary attainments, many of whose articles were 
copied in the English magazines; Thomas Montgomery, 
David Suramerville, Col. Robert Peebles, who lived on 
the farm lately known as the General David Middlecoff 
farm (a Revolutionary soldier); Robert Peebles, William 
Sterrett, wdio lived on the ridge road ; John Maclay, Sr., 
who lived at Maclay's mill; Robert Donovin, lived near 
Centre Square, Franklin county; John Herron, who 
lived at Herrons Branch ; Col. James Dunlap, who 
lived near Newburg, a Revolutionary soldier; John 
Maclay, Jr., who lived near Roxbury. 

The following were ordained Oct. 20, 1805 : 

David Mahon, Sr., who lived on the farm recently 
known as the Hugh Craig farm; John Woods, Hugh 
Smitli, Thomas McClelland, the noted singer. 

James Linn, ordained before 1824. 

The following were ordained Sept. 20, 1822 : 

James Barr, James McKee, James Wallace, and pro- 
bably George McGinness, Daniel Henderson and Benja- 
min Reynolds. 

The following were ordained Apr. 16, 1828 : 

Jacob Porter, Jolm Cooj)er, son of Dr. Robert 
Cooper; William Rodgers, Alexander Peebles, Joseph 
Donovin. 



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The following were ordained Apr. 2, 1886 : 

James R. Montgomery, the praying elder, Joseph M. 

Means, Robert McCnne, of the Pike, John Siiannon, 

who went west in LSK), and James Kelso. 
The following wei-e onhiined Dee. 30, 1849 : 
Samuel Wherrv, Robert S. IMcCune, David S. Ren- 

siiaw and Abraham S. MeKinney. 

The following were ordained Sept. o, 1857: 

James B, Orr, Robert Elliott, W. A. Cox, Benjamin 

A. Peebles, and David Reside. 

The following were ordained Oct. 4, 1874: 

W. A. P. Linn, William D. Means, Alexander Pome- 

i-oy and Robert H. MeElhinny, 

In 1876 tlie session consisted of members as follows ; 
James B. Orr, W. A.Cox,B. H.Peebles, R.H. MeEl- 
hinny, Alexander Pomeroy, W. D. Means and W. A. 

P. Linn. 

In 1900 the session consists of W. A. Cox, W. D. 

]\IcCune, W. D. Means, W. C. Creamer, ^NFunay Fiekes, 

Robert Peebles. 



50 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



SONS OF THE CHURCH WHO ENTERED THE 
MINISTRY. 



"One of the richest legacies which Middle Spring 
Church has bequeathed to the world, and one of the 
striking features of her history, is the number and 
worth of her sons in the ministry." 

William Linn was born in Lurgan township Feb. 27, 
1752. He was the oldest son of Wm. Linn, a ruling 
elder in the Middle Spring Church. After pursuing a 
preparatory course under Rev. George Duffield and in 
the school of Rev. Robert Smith, at Pequea, he entered 
Princeton College, where he was graduated in the class oi 
1772. He studied theology under his pastor, Rev. 
Robert Cooper, and seems to have been licensed and or- 
dained by the First Presbytety of Pluladelphia, or that 
of New Castle, in 1775 or 177<;. 

John Peebles, son of Capt. Robert Peel)les, was born 
July 17, 1800: wasgraduatedfrom Jefferson College 1820; 
ordained by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, June 22, 
1825; pastor at Huntingdon and Harts Log, Pa., 1825 
to 1850; stated supply at Parkersburg, Pa., 1S51 to 
1854; died at Huntingdon Aug. 11, 1854. 

James Smith, son of Hugh and Eliz:ibeth (McCor- 
mick) Smith was born near Newburg, June 12, 1793. 
He was graduated from Dickinson College in 181(); mis- 
sionary and stated supply in Presbytery of Carlisle, 
from 1821 to 1825; ordained by the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia Nov. 15, 1825; pastor of the second 
church of Northern Liberties, Philadelt)ilia, from 1825 
to 1833 ; later lived at Moro, 111. 

Francis Herron was born at Herrons Branch, June 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 51 



28, 1774, and was the son of David Herron, a ruling 
elder in the church of Middle Spring. He was graduated 
from Dickinson College May*5, 1794, and was licensed 
to preach by the Presbytery of Carlisle, Oct. 4, 1797. 
Me was installed pastor of the Rocky Spring church 
April 9, 1800 and his connection with that people was 
not severed until 1811, when he accepted a call to the 
First church of Pittsburg. Here he successfully labored 
until 1850, when he retired from the ministry on ac- 
count of advanced age. He died Dec. (3, 18(30. In 
February, 1802 he married Elizabeth Blain, of Carlisle, 
Pa., who died in 1855. 

James Linn Rodgers, son of James and Jane (Linn) 
Rodgers, was born near Shippensburg May 5, 1827; was 
graduated from Jefferson College, 1847; from Princeton 
Theological Seminary 1850; licensed June 12, 1849, by 
Presbytery of Carlisle ; ordained by Presbytery of 
Donegal, May 2, 1851, pastor at Donegal; pastor at Mt. 
Joy, Pa., from 1852 to 1<S5(3; stated supply at Sterling. 
111., 185() and 1857; principal of Female Seminary, 
Springfield, Ohio, 1857 to 1871 ; stated sup]3ly at Yel- 
]o\Y Spring, 1871 ; married May 20, 1850, Hettie B., 
daugliter of Robert Cochran, of Shippensburg. 

Joseph Trimble, son of Wm. and Jane Sterrett Trim- 
ble, was born D.h*. 4, 1795 ; was graduated from Prince- 
ton Seminary 182;> ; licensed Oct. 8, 1 82o by the Presby- 
tery of Carlisle; missionary in Indiana in 1823 and 
1824; died at Madison, Tnd., Aug. 11, 1824. 

Francis Cummins, a student at Hopewell academy. 

Joseph B. McKee was called as stated supply to the 
Xewburg and Roxbury cinirches A|)ril 11, 18^)8, but 
only remained a short time. He died at West New- 
ton, Pa. 



THE MIDDLE SPRING 



John Wherry, son of Samuel and Margaret McCune 
Wherry was born in Southampton township May 23, 
1837 ; w^as graduated from the College of New Jersey 
and Princeton Theological Seminary ; tutor in College 
of New Jersey 1860 and 1861; ordained an evangelist 
by Presbytery of Carlisle Mar. 16, 1864 ; missionary in 
China since 1864. 

Thomas X. Orr, son of John and MoUie (Bracken- 
ridge), was born at Orrstown, Pa., Aug. 10, 1836 : was 
graduated from Jefferson College 1857 ; practiced law in 
Chambersburg until 1860; was graduated from Western 
Theological Seminary 1863; licensed by the Presbytery 
of Carlisle 1862 ; ordained in 1863 by Presbytery of 
Allegheny; pastor at Allegheny 1863 to 1869; First 
Reformed Church, Philadelphia, 1869 to 1883; Second 
Presbyterian Church, Peoria, 111., 1883; married May 
4, 1863, Mary V. Reiley; secondly Aug. 6, 1879, Mer- 
vinia, daughter of Dr. N. L, Hatfield. His Alma Mater 
conferred upon him the degree of D. D. 

John J. Pomeroy was born at Roxbury, Pa., Sept. 8, 
1834; was graduated from Lafayette College, 1857; 
Princeton Seminary 1861 ; ordained by the Presbytery 
of Lewes, Nov. 28,1861; pastor at Dover,'Del., 1861 and 
1862 ; Chaplain U. S. army 1862 to 1864; stated sup- 
ply at Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1864; Chaplain U. S. A., 
1864 and 1865 ; pastor Upper Octorara, Pa., 1865 to 
1875; pastor of First Church Rahway, N. J., 1875. 

Stephen Wilson Pomeroy born at Roxbury, Pa., De- 
cember 16, 1836; was graduated from Lafayette College 
1861 and from Princeton Seminary 1863; stated supply 
of the Seventh Street Church, Harrisburg, Pa., 1866 
and 1867; ordained by Presbytery of Carlisle Nov. 6, 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 53 



1868; pastor of McConnelsburg charge 1868 to 1871; 
pastor of Newton charge 1871 to 1878; pastor of Mt. 
Union and Sherleysburg from 1878. 

Alexander Peebles Kelso, son of J. Anderson and 
Elizabeth (Lynn), was born Aug. 4, 1840; was graduated 
from Washington and Jefferson College 1865; Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary 1868; ordained by Presby- 
tery of Carlisle Aug. 1869, missionary to India ; mar- 
ried Oct. 12, 1870, in India, Louisa M. Bolton. 

Frank E. Taylor was born in Mowersville, Pa., Nov. 
15, 1865. He was graduated from Lafayette College 
in 1890 and 189o from LTnion Theological Seminary, 
New York. In 1891 he ministered to the people of 
Pleasantville, N. Y., and in 1892 he preached to the 
Presbyterian congregation in South Centreville, N. Y. 
He received a cnW from the Dundee Presbyterian church, 
Passaic, N. J., and was ordained and installed pastor 
May o, ]89:>. Owing to ill health in the summer of 
1898, he resigned, and accepted a call to Otisville, N. 
Y., where, with the Mt. Hope charge, he successfully 
labors among an intelligent people, and amidst most 
pleasant environments. 

Robert Taylor, born at Mowersville, Pa. He entered 
the ministry of the Presbyterian church and is an earn- 
est, conscientious pastor in his field of labor. 



THE MIDDLE SPRING 



PERSONS ADMITTED TO THE MIDDLE SPRING 
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DURING THE 
MINISTRY OF REV. JOHN MOODY, D. D. 



OCTOBER 22, 1803. 
Agnes Smith, Hannah McKibben, Ann Woods, Mar- 
garet Allsworth, Martha Brown. 

MAY 6, 1804. 
James Tnrner, James Rodgers. Jean Rodgers, James 
I jinn, Grizzel Linn, Samuel Rippy, Isabella Bailey. 
SEPTEMBER 30, 1804. 
Thomas Trimble, Elizabeth Martin. 

JUNE 2, 1805. 
Robert Peebles, James Quigley, Grizzel Quigley, John 
Thompson, Agnes Herron. 

OCTOBER 27, 1805. 
P^leanor McKinney. 

MAY 18, 1806. 
Benjamin McKee, Jean McKee, Rebecca Sliannon, 
David Simeril, Jean Simeril, ^Martha Strain. 
OCTOBER 19, 1806. 
David McKinney, Jr., Snsan PeojJes, William Dun- 
can, Jean Duncan, Margaret C-ooper. Jean Fi-ench, 
.b)hn Caldwell. 

OCTOBER II, 1807. 
John Nevin, Martha Nevin, Mary McClay, Andrew 
Rodgers, Rachel ]{odgers. 

MAY 15, 1808. 
Elizabeth Smith, Samuel Hanna, lCHzal)eth Hanna, 
dean Donaldson, John McClay, Sarah ih-ice, Keziali 
Herron, Sarah Trimble, Jean Stewart, Sai-aii Wilson, 
Ann Culbertson, Sanuiel Kearsley, Saraii Kearsley, 
iVitrick Hayes, Eliz;d)ctli Hayes, Elizabeth Carson, 
Marv Pomerov. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 5t) 



SEPTEMBER 25, 1808. 
Katharine Rliaiim, Katharine Moore, Elizabeth Long-, 
Lily Grav, Jean Wills, Mary Haves, Cinthia Hemp- 
hill. 

JUNE II, 1809. 
Jacob Smith, Eleanor Smith, Elizabeth Thompson, 
Jean Wills. Elizabeth Reynolds. Samuel Woodrow, 
James Drummond, Widow Peoples, Mary Barr, Jean 
McClure. 

OCTOBER 6, 1809. 
Andrew Love, Hannah Love, Lettitia Duncan, Ann 
Kersley, Marjory Henderson, Eleanor McClay, Polly 
Strain, James Taylor, Jane Taylor, William McClure. 
MAY 6, 1 8 10. 
Nancy Barr, Hannah Wills, Fanny Sturgeon, Nancy 
Shannon, James Wallace, Agnes Wallace, Margaret 
McCalmond, Jean Herron. 

OCTOBER 7, 1810. 
Samuel Walker, Elizabeth Walker, William Herron, 
Kobert Thompson, Mrs. Galbreath, Rebecca Perry. 
MAY 12, 181 1. 
Robert Donaldson, Mary Trimble. 
OCTOBER 27, 181 1. 
Elizabeth Clark, Ann Richards, Polly Trimble, Betsy 
Trimble, Elizabeth Bj-ittain, Margaret McClay, Ebenezer 
Campbell, Andrew Robb, Jean Donaldson. 
MAY 17, 1812. 
James Henderson. Charles White, Joseph Barr, Ben- 
jamin Reynolds, Milldrid Reynolds, Mary Quigley, 
Jean Miller, Samuel Tate, James Porter, Mary Boyd. 
NOVEMBER i, 1812. 
Sarah Patterson, Ann Patterson, Hannah Patterson, 

Jean Tate, Clark, Mary Hayes, Mary Adams, 

Nancv Hawthorn. 



56 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



MAY i6, 1813. 
Andrew Irvin, Mary Irvin, Susanna McClelland, 
Eliza Peebles. 

MAY 8, 1 8 14. 
Charles Pomeroy, David Thompson, Elizabeth 
Thompson, Eleanor Cummins. 

SEPTEMBER 25, 1814. 
Ellinor McCune, Polly Linn, Jean Linn, John Linn, 
John White, Elizabeth White, Mary Galbreath, EUincjr 
Campbell, Elizabeth Campbell. 

MAY 8, 1815. 
Elizabeth Leeper, Mary Clark, Mary Dunbar, P]liza- 
beth Monosmith, Polly Thompson, Martha Cox, Mary 
McConnell, Samuel Smith, Catharine Meliinness. James 
Hawthorn, George McGinness, Rebecca Moore. 
OCTOBER 8, 18 1 5. 
Ruth Duncan, Katharine Putts, Margaret ^McWll- 
liaras, John Wills, Eizabeth Smitii, Eliza Merroii, Isa- 
bella Kelso. 

MAY 5, 181 6. 

Eleanor Pye, Matthew Snody, David Woods. S; 
uel McCune, Robert Sharp, Elizabeth Highlands, Mi 
gaaet Porter, Jean McClay, Jean Snody, Ruth Carlisle, 

Catharine Woods. 

OCTOBER 13, 1816. 
James Smith, Eliza])eth Porter, Eh'za Trvin, Ramsy 
Montgomery, Joseph Trimble, Margaret McClelland, 
Littitia McCune, James Strain, William Sniith, Paul 

Martin. 

MAY 5, 1817. 

Jean Leeper, William Linn, Joseph Dona van, Afar- 
garet McKee, Mary Atcheson, Mary Carlisle, Elizabeth 
Ritchey, Joseph Quigley, Jean McClure, Mary Mahon, 
Mary Nevin, liable Snody, Margaret Chambers. 



un- 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 57 

OCTOBER 5, 1817. 
Rebecca Thompson, Peggy Kitcliey, Mary Rodgers, 
Nancy Griffin, Anna Seugwick, Andrew Ritcliey, Mar- 
tha Ritchey. 

MAY 10, 1818. 

Julian Duncan, Mary Fuhon, Margaret McClay, 
Mary Ann Moody. 

OCTOBER 4, 1818. 

Mary Hayes, Ann Eliza Wallace, Nancy Walkei-, 
Jean Wills. 

MAY 16, 1819. 
Ann jMcKinney, Frances Galbreath, John Sturgeon 

and wife. 

OCTOBER 10, 1819. 

Elizabeth Green, Alexander Peoples, Eliza Peoples, 
Elizabeth Patterson, Ruth Duncan, Katharine Wiley, 
Mary Cox, Amanda Cox, Benjamin McKee, William 
Snodgrass, Jean Snodgrass, Eleanor (Til)b, James 
Drummond, Isabella McConnell. 
MAY 7, 1820. 

Elizabeth Henderson, Ann Culliertson, Eliza Linn, 
Jean McCune, Thomas Smith, Andrew Frazer, Ann 
Frazer, Rebecca Duncan, Eleanor Peebles, Joseph 
McCord Means, Jean Means. 

OCTOBER 1820. 

Rachel Richey, Polly Ritcliey, Nancy Graham, Ra- 
chel Dona van, Margaret Henderson, Dr. Wm. Finley, 
Barbara Finley, Mrs. Bally, Martha Breckenridge, 
MAY 6, 182 1. 

Bethsheba McClure, Jean Dunbar, Sara Dunbar, 
Hannah Blythe, James Kelso, Mary Kelso, Mary Barr, 
James C. ]\IcKee, Polly Pomeroy, Agnes Stockton, 
Mary Hammil, Samuel Sturgeon, Ann Sturgeon, Wil- 



58 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

liam Davies, Catharine Davies, Margaret Brittain, Jean 
Wills, Williamson Nevin, Isabella Kelso, James Galla^ 
her, William Gallaher, Jean Gallaher, Mary Gallaher, 
Margaret Gallaher. 

OCTOBER 14, 1821. 

Mary Ann Moore, Mary Herron, Margaret Herron, 
Molly Caldwell, Margaret Williamson, Bethsheba Me- 
Cune, Sarah Ann Duncan, Mary McKee, Margaret 
Summerville, John Devon, Ann Devon, Louisa Cal- 
hoon, Ann Wilson, Samuel Dickson, Susanna Dickson, 
Ann Wright. 

MAY 12, 1822. 

Agnes Criswell, Robert McCune, Elizabeth McCune, 
Johnston Snody, William Mitchell, Rachel Kilgore, 
Elizabeth Weir, Johnston White, Eleanor White, Eliz- 
abeth Russel, Mary Mitchell, Molly Willson. 
OCTOBER 1822. 

William Reynolds, Eleanor Reynolds, Margaret Rey- 
nolds, Elizabeth Walker, Sally Walker, Andrew Breck- 
enridge, Isabella Clark, Jean Ritchey, George McCor- 
mick, Emma McCormick, John Chambers Smith, John 
Quigley, Isabella Caldwell. 

MAY 4, 1823. 

John Wherry, Margaret Wherry, Robert McCune, 
Jane McCune, Alexander Kelso, Joseph McKee, John 
McKee, Elizal)eth McKee, William Beatty, Eliza) )eth 
Green, John Shannon. 

OCTOBER 19, 1823. 
• Elizabeth Scott, Jean McClelland, Ann McClelland, 
Jean Herron, Sarah Cooper, Susan Ritchey, Margaret 
Searight, Rachel Rodgers, Betsy Lanetis, Johnston 
Snody. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 59 

MAY i6, 1824. 
Bathsheba McCune, Margaret McClelland, Nancy 
Gibb, Mary Ritcliey, John Furguson, Jean Furguson, 
Mary Shannon, Thomas Wills, Nancy Montgomery. 
8ally Brittain, Eleanor Pye, Mary Eaton, Rosanna 
E^aton, Elizabeth Reynolds, Ann Snoddy. 
OCTOBER 10, 1824. 
Isaac Ward, Julian Hemphill, Jean Ritchey, Susanna 
Thompson, Catharine McManims, Jean McClay, Eliz- 
abeth Moore, Margaret Pomeroy, Jean Cooper. 
MAY 15, 1825. 
Rebeca Skelly, Martha Summerville, Jean Summer* 
ville, Caroline Hemphill, Esther Colwell, John Morison, 
Isabella Morrison, Jean Fulton. 

OCTOBER 9, 1825. 
Sally Hagan, Mary Callan, Elizabeth Henderson, 
Jane Nimmon. 

MAY 7, 1826. 
Sally Mclntire, Nancy Ritchey, Jane Smith. 

OCTOBER 15, 1826. 
John McCune, Ann Searight, John McClay Smith, 
Mary Smith, Margaret Clark, Mary Smith, Margaret 
Smith, Margaret McCune, Mary McCoy. 
MAY 13, 1827. 
John Henderson, Margaret Henderson, Margaret 
Hemphill, Robert Straiji, Robert Hunter, William 
Gray (colored.) 

OCTOBER 9, 1827. 
Margaret Nevin, Nancy Reynolds, Elizabeth Ritchey, 
Nancy Sharp, Isabella McKee. Cyrus Hudson. 
MAY 4, 1828. 
Johnston Williamson, Sail Vanderl)elt, Teressa Mc- 
Ginness, Jane Maclay, Samuel Wherry, John Wherry 



60 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Captain David Diiiican, Susan McClelland, Agnes Her- 
ron, Jane Gibb, Jane Smith, Ann Smith, Elizabeth 

McKee. 

OCTOBER, 1828. 

Mary Wherry, Harriet Linsey, John Maclay, Han- 
nah Maclay. 

MAY 10, 1829. 

Jane Donaldson, Abraham S. McKinney, John Her- 
ron, Eliza Duncan, Jane Duncan, Lucinda Allen, Mary 
Young, Eleanor Jacobs, Jane Herron. 
OCTOBER II, 1829. 
Joseph Cooks. 
MAY 9, 1830. 
Dr. William R. Raum, Elizabeth Raum, Molly Wil- 
son, Jane Wilson, Mary Ann Martin, Molly Gallaher. 
OCTOBER 3, 1830. 
Joanna Stewart, Marjory Hemphill, John Moodey 
McKee, John Grimes, Frances Meredith, 
MAY 8, 1831. . 
Elizabeth Walker, Isabella Barr, David Simerville 

Runshey. 

OCTOBER 9, 1 83 1. 

Elizabeth Nevin, Abram W. Smith, William Barr, 
Eliza Green, William Johnston, Kearsly Cooper, Eliza- 
beth Cooper, Jane E. Moodey, John Raum, Col. Wil- 
liam Meredith. 

APRIE 29, 1832. 

Mary Quigley, William Green, Margaret Williamson, 

Elizabeth Young, Nelly Ann Gibbs, Martha Shannon, 

Mary Ralston, Jane Ferguson, John Green, Jane Mc- 

Ginniss. 

SEPTEMBER 30, 1832. 

Mary Miller, Margaret McCoy, John McCoy, David 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 61 

Maclay, Lucinda Green, Elizabeth Wherry, Katharine 
Wiley, John Green, Barbara Ann Green, Sarah Wilson,- 
Jane Speer, Mary llaum. 

APRIL 28, 1833. 
Molly McCune Campbell, Martha Ann Kunsha, 
Mary Ann Simerville, Nancy Mahon, Mary Barret, 
Robert McCiine, William B. Walker, Mary Waddle, 

William Allen. 

SEPTEMBER 29, 1833. 
Margaret Morrow, Mary Ann Allen, Alexander 
Dempster, Samnel Kearns, Agnes Kearns, Margaret 
Kearns, Elizabeth Armstrong Wallace. 
MAY 3^1835- 
William Wherry, Charles White. 

OCTOBER II, 1835. 
Ann Shannon, Margaret IMoody, John Maclay, Mary 
Jane Maclay, John Ferree, Margaret Ferree, Mrs. Mer- 
edith. 

APRIE24, 1836. 

Robert I)on;ivan, Bethsheba McCune, Jane Hender- 
son, John MHiite, Elizabeth White. 

SEPTEMBER 25, 1S36. 
Mary Devor, David Hayes. Elizabeth McCune, Agnes 
Morrow, Nancy Hayes. 

APRIL 30, 1837. 
Jane Cairns, ]Mary Cairns, Mary Morrow, Mary 
Means, Mary Wilson, Sarah Culbertson, Elizabeth Cul- 

bertson. 

OCTOBER I, 1837. 

Robert Peeples, Mrs. Breckenridge. 

APRIL 29, 1838. 
Elizabeth Jane White, Jane Barr, Mrs. Patterson, 
Mary Ferree, William Donovan. 



62 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



SEPTEMBER, 1838. 
Amelia Hayes, Mary Ann White, Mary Ann Green, 

APRIL 28, 1839. 
Bethslieba Hayes, William Barr, Mary Ann Barr, 
George McCormick, Nancy McCormick, James Swiler, 
Prudence H. Swiler. 

SEPTEMBER 15, 1839- 
John Green, Elizabeth Green. 

MAY 10, 1840. 
Susan Kelso, Elizabeth Summerville, Margaret Snody. 

SEPTEMBER 27, 1840. 
John Means, Mary Cox, Mary Runsha, Margaret 
Henderson, Jane Hayes, 

MAY 2, 1841. 
' Catharine Devor. 
SEPTEMBER 19, 1841. 
Elder McCune, Mary Ellen McCune, Frances Maelay, 
Elizabeth Maelay, Maria, Adult. 
MAY 8, 1842. 
Rosanna McCune, Mary Jane Kelso, Mary Linn. 
SEPTEMBER 18, 1842. 
James McCune. 
APRIL 30, 1843. 
Margaret Neir, Jemima McCune, Jacob Porter Devor. 

OCTOBER I, 1843. 
Mary Jane Ferguson, John McCune. 

APRIL 28, 1844. 
John Pilgrim, Samuel H. Swonsey, Elizabeth M. 
Maelay, Samuel Duncan, Eliza Skiles. 
vSEPTEMBER 15, 1844. 
David Wherry, George Allen, Grizelda Linn, Eliz- 
abeth Linn Kelso, Mary Ann Brown McPherson. 
APRIL 27, 1845. 
Elizabeth Ferguson, Margaret Shannon. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 63 

APRIL 26, 1846. 
Robert Quigley, Ellen Brown Quigley, Martha Hen- 
derson. 

SEPTEMBER 13, 1846. 

Columbus Breckenridge, Isabella Montgomery, Mary 
McCune, Elizabeth Wherry. 

APRIL II, 1847. 
Mary Ann Sharp, Martha Ann Cox, Isabel Allen. 

NOVEMBER 2, 1847. 
Robert B. Laughlin, Maria Laughlin, Thos. Pome- 
roy, Mary Ann Pomeroy, Martha B. Means, Rebecca 
Sterrit, John Young, Sarah Linn, 
APRIE 30, 1848. 
James Jackson Bowers, Mary Ann Bowers, William 
Simpson Runsha, James Henderson, Helena Hender- 
son, Elizabeth Ferguson, Amanda Caroline Blythe, 

Jane Ann Cox. 

SEPTEMBER 3, 1848. 

Moses Kilpatrick, Mrs. Kilpatrick, Jane Ritchey, 
Agnes Kelso, John S. Kelso, Nancy Elizabeth Stockton, 
Kezia McCune, James Hemphill. 

JANUARY 7, 1849. 
Mary Jane Pomeroy, Mary Pomeroy. 

APRIL 29, 1849. 
Sarah Ann Spear, Robeit Elliott, Mary Elliott. 

SEPTEMBER 2, 1849. 
Elizabeth Means, Sarah Wallace, Elizabeth Wallace, 
Isabella Henderson, Elizabeth Henderson, James Ram- 
sey Means, Katharine Ann Runsha. 
JANUARY 6, 1850. 
William Duncan McCune, William Wilson Frazer, 
Mary, wife of Samuel Smith, Mary, wife of W. W. 
Frazer. 



64 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

APRIL 28, 1850. 
Caroline Bethsheba Morrow, William Ferguson, Wil- 
son Sterrit, Rosanna Hudson, James Allen. 
SEPTEMBER i, 1850. 
Elizabeth McCormlck, Elizabeth Kelso, Pauline 

Martin. 

JANUARY 5, 1851. 

John Brittain. 
APRIE27, 1851. 
Elizabeth McCoy, Martha Skiles, Elizabeth 
Hemphill, Samuel D. MePlierson, John A. Logan, 
Bethsheba McCullough, Lucinda Beatty. 
SEPTEMBER 7, 1851." 
Margaret Wherry, Rebecca McCune, Keziah Mary 
McCune, John Sharp, Eleanor Sharp, Mary Virginia 

Raum. 

JANUARY 4, 1851. 

David McKinney, son of A. S. McKinney. 
APRIL 25, 1852. 
Joseph M, Means. 
SEPTEMBER 5, 1852. 
James Robertson, John McCune Sharp, Eleanor 
Jane, wife of John M. Sharp, Sarah Kelso, Rebecca 
Jane Breckenridge, Br. James McCune, Maria Smith. 
APRIL 12, 1853. 
Rosanna McCarran, John J. Pomeroy, Steven W. 
Pomeroy, Thomas Brittain, Cinthia Jane Hemphill, 
Mary Hemphill, Mary O'Brian. 

SEPTEMBER 4, 1S53. 
William Brown, Hannah, wife of William Brown, 
Lettitia Duncan, Jane Duncan, Isabel Sterrit, Julia Ann 
Pomeroy, Rebecca M. Sanders. 




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Communion Tokens. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 65 



JANUARY I, 1854. 
Mrs. Agnes Orr, Benjamin A. Peoples, Dr. John 
Hnnter, Mrs. elane Hunter, Miss Mary Hunter, Miss 
Martha A. Hunter, Robert 1. Hunter, Miss Susan J. 
MeK. Hunter. 



66 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

BAPTISMS BY REV. JOHN MOODY 



Barr, Jean Fiiiley, daughter of AVilliam. 

Barr, Mary, daughter of James. 

Carlisle, John Whitehill, son of Thomas. 

Caldwell, John Beard, son of Samuel, 

Caldwell, Mary, daughter of John. 

Cooper, Sally, daughter of John. 

Cox, Amanda, daughter of Samuel. 

Cummins, Mary Jean, daughter of Thomas. 

Duncan, John, son of William. 

Maclay, Charles, son of Elijah. 

Maclay, John, son of Charles. 

Mahon, Nancy, daughter of David. 

Mahon, Rebekah Heap, daughter of Archibald. 

]\Iartin, Thomas Jefferson, son of Thomas. 

Martin, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas. 

Molly, bound girl. 

McComb, Thomas, son of David. 

McKinney, Thomas Andrew, son of David, Jr. 

Moody, Mary Ann, daughter of John. 

Murry, Margaret Porter, daughter of James. 

Pomeroy, Joseph, son of John. 

Quigley, Josepli, son of James. 

Reynolds, Elizabeth, daughter of William. 

Rodgers, Rachel, daughter of James. 

Smith, Abraham, son of Jacob. 

Snively, Amelia. 

Snively, John, son of Amelia. 

Sterritt, Robert, son of widow. 

Sterritt, Benjamin Stevenson, son of Thomas. 

Sterritt, Rachel, daughter of Robert. 



PEESBYTERIAN CHURCH ()7 

Stewart, Margaret Aun, daughter of Dr. Alexander. 
Strain, Samuel, son of James. 
Sturgeon, Richard, son of Samuel. 
Thompson, Agnes, daughter of Samuel. 
Thompson, William, son of Samuel. 
Turner, Ann, daughter of James. 
Wills, John Scott, son of James. 
Wherry, Samuel, son of John. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 9. 1805. 



Adams, Margaret McKinley, daughter of David. 

Rally, Roily Cowan, daughter of John. 

Rarr, W^illiam, son of James. 

Rrittain, Thomas, son of John. 

Campbell, Eleanor Duncan, daughter of Francis. 

(Jampbell, Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer. 

Clark, Margaret, daughter of Robert. 

Cochran, George Ham mil, son of Patrick. 

Duncan, David, son of David. 

Dysart, Isaac Ambrose, son of Renjamin. 

Green, Samuel Irvin, son of Archibald. 

Hemphill, Peggy, daughter of James. 

Henderson, Margaret Williamson, daughter of David. 

JohiLston, Polly, daughter of George. 

Kelso, John Kirkpatrick, son of James. 

Laughlin, Nancy, daughter of John. 

Lee per, Charles, son of Allen. 

Leeper, Mary, daughter of Allen. 

Leeper, Thomas, son of Allen. 

Love, Thomas, son of Andrew. 

jNIahon, John, son of David. 



THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Mateer, Peggy, daughter of Alexander. 
McCiine, Kosanna. 

McCommon, William, son of Alexander. 
McKee, Mary, daughter of James. 
McKnight, David, son of David. 
Miller, Jenny, daughter of Captain Isaac. 
Moody, Robert Cooper, son of John. 
Nevin, William McCracken, son of John. 
Patterson, Eliza Jane, daughter of widow, 
Patterson, Jean, daughter of Andrew. 
Porter, Peggy, daughter of James. 
Shannon, Samuel, son of Joseph. 
Simeril, Martha, daughter of David. 
Simpson, Isabella, daughter of Dr. John. 
Smith, Jean, daughter of Hugh. 
Smith, Sally Ann, daughter of James. 
Sturgeon, Samuel, son of Samuel. 
Wills, James, son of John. 
Wills, Andrew, son of John. 
Wilson, Sally, daughter of John. 
Wherry, John Mitchell, son of John. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 8, 1806. 



Barkloe, Jane, daughter of Robert. 
Beatty, Jane, daughter of John. 
Beatty, Samuel Wherry, son of John. 
Brice, Jean, daughter of James, 
Brice, John, son of James. 
Broomfield, Betsy, daughter of James. 
Caldwell, Robert, son of Samuel. 
Carlisle, James, son of Thomas. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 69 

Cooper, Jean Nicholson, daughter of John. 
Creigh, Samuel Alexander, son of Samuel. 
Creigh, Sarah Mahan, daughter of Samuel. 
Cummins, Simpson McCommon, son of Thomas. 
Hemphill, Moses, son of James. 
Herron, Agnes, daughter of William. 
Johnston, Samuel, son of Benjamin. 
McAskie, Margaret, daughter of John. 
IMcAskie, Joseph, son of John. 
McComb, William, son of David. 
MeKeehan, Benjamin, son of John. 
McKinney, Eleanor, daughter of David, Jr. 
Montgomery, Mary Ann, daughter of James, 
Peebles, Jean, daughter of Robert, Jr. 
Ritchey, Martha, daughter of David. 
Ritchey, James, son of David. 
Ritchey, David, son of David. 
Ritchey, Agnes, daughter of David. 
Ritchey, Polly, daughter of David. 
Ritchey, John MeKee, son of David. 
Scolt, Rachel, daughter of William. 
Stewart, Henry Augustus, son of Dr. 
Thompson, Martha, daughter of John. 
Turner, Rebecca, daughter of James. 
Wallace, Hamilton, son of James. 
Watson, William, 

Watson, Agnes, daughter of William. 
Watson, Catharine, daughter of William. 
White, Samuel Eaton. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 14. 1807. 



Adams, James, son of Daniel, 



70 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Anderson, Samuel. 

Brittain, Elizabeth, daughter of John. 
Cambridge, Elizabeth, daughter of John. 
Cambridge, Sally Ann, daughter of John. 
Cambridge, Archibald, son of John. 
Cambridge, Jean, daughter of John. 
Clark, Sarah, daughter of Robert. 
Duncan, Eliza, daughter of William. 
Graham, Elizabeth, daughter of Francis. 
Hanna, Maria Jean, daughter of Samuel. 
Johnston, Jean, daughter of Benjamin. 
Johnston, Nancy, daughter of George. 
Kelso, Robert, son of James. 
Laughlin, Jean, daughter of John. 
Maclay, Jean, daughter of Charles. 
Mateer, Alexander, son of Alexander. 
Martin, Mary. 
Martin, Rachel. 

Martin, Agnes, daughter of Colonel Th(>m:l^ 
Martin, Paul, son of Colonel Thomas. 
Martin, Jean, daughter of Colonel Thomas. 
McConnell, David, son of William. 
McConnell, Alexander, son of William. 
Mitchell, Margaret Montgomery. 
Moody, Elizabeth, daughter of John, 
Porter, William, son of James. 
Quigley, Mary, daughter of James. 
Reynolds, Nancy, daughter of William, 
Reynolds, Jean, daughter of William. 
Rodgers, Robert, son of James. 
Runshaw, Jean, daughter of William, 
Runshaw, David Simeril, son of William. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 71 



8immeril, Jenny, daughter of David. 

Stewart, Isabella, daughter of Dr. Alexander. 

Wallace James, son of James, 

Wallace James, son of John. 

Walker, Elizabeth, daughter of James. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL i^. 1808. 



Baily, Mar}^ Finley, daughter of William. 
Barkloe, John, son of Kobert. 
Barr, Thomas, son of James. 
Campbell, James Parker, son of Sarah, 
Caldwell, Agnes, daughter of Samuel. 
Cooper, Robert, son of John. 
Duncan, Daniel, son of Joseph. 
Duncan, Margaret Chambers, daughter of Joseph. 
Griffin, Polly, daughter of Edward. 
Hayes, James Wilson, son of Patrick. 
McClelland, Peggy, daughter of Thomas, Jr, 
McClelland, John, son of Thomas, Jr. 
McClelland, Susan, daughter of Thomas, Jr. 
McClure, Jean, daughter of William. 
McComb, Jean, daughter of David. 
McConnell, James, son of William. 
McKee, Margaret Isabella, daughter of James. 
McKinney, Dinah, daughter of David, Jr. 
McKnight, Ebenezer McKinley, son of David. 
McKnight, Eleanor, daughter of David. 
Miller, Kezia, daughter of Colonel Isaac. 
Nevin, Margaret, daughter of John. 
Peebles, Mary Ann, daughter of Robert. 
Peebles, Susan, daughter of Robert. 



7Z THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Pomeroy, John, son of John. 

Pomeroy, Margaret, daughter of Charles. 

Rippy, Lucinda, daughter of Colonel John. 

Rodgers, Richard, son of Andrew. 

Sturgeon, Martha Washington, daughter of Samuel. 

Turner, John, son of James. 

Wallace, John Hamilton, son of John. 

Wallace, Elizabeth, Jean, daughter of Jose[>h. 

Weir, Jean, daughter of George. 

Wherry, Isabella Mary, daughter of John. 

White, Ebenezer, son of John. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL i i, 1809. 



Barkley, Francis, son of Robert. 

Barkley, John, son of Robert. 

Beatty, Elizabeth, daughter of John. 

Brittain, Isabella, daughter of John. 

Broomfield, Molly Ann, daughter of James. 

Carlisle, Ruth, daughter of Thomas. 

Clark, Susan, daughter of Robert. 

Duncan, Jean, daughter of William. 

Duncan, Jesse Stewart, son of Joseph. 

Hefflefinger, Isabella McCormick. 

Hanna, Samuel, son of Samuel. 

Johnston, Kitty, daughter of George. 

Laughlin, Mary, daughter of John. 

Linsley, Jean. 

Maclay, James Linn Dixon, son of Charles. 

Mahon, Mary McConaughy, daughter of Arcliibald. 

Mahon, Samuel, son of Archibald. 

Martin, William Boyd, son of Colonel TIkhtuis. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 7o 

Mateer, Mary Jean, daughter of Alexander. 

McCune, James, son of John. 

Moody, Jean McKnight, daughter of John. 

Patterson, Andrew, son of Andrew. 

Patterson, Jane Brotherton, daughter of William. 

Peoples, Peggy, daughter of Robert. 

Quigley, Mary, daughter of Joseph. 

Rodgers, John, son of Andrew. 

Runshaw, David Simpson, son of William. 

Scott, William, son of William. 

Shannon, Martha, daughter of Joseph. 

Simpson, Robert Boyd, son of Dr. 

Stewart, Alexander Scott, son of Dr. Alexander. 

Thompson, Eliza McNance, daughter of J^avid. 

Walker, jNIary, daughter of James. 

Wallace, William, son of John. 

Wallace, Elijah, son of James. 

Watson, George, son of William. 

AVeir, Abraham, son of George. 

Wills, Livinia, daughter of John. 

AVills, Cinthia, daughter of James. 

Wilson, James, son of John. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL lo, 1810. 



Allen, Lucinda, daughter of William. 
Barkloe, William Cowan, son of Robert. 
Caldwell, Samuel Breckenridge, son of Samuel. 
Caldwell, Elizabeth, daughter of John. 
Clark, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of George. 
Clark, Marjory, daughter of Robert. 
Coo])er, Samuel Kearsley, son of John. 



74 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Cooper, George Price. 
Griffin, Jean, daughter of Edward. 
Hemphill, James Jack, son of James. 
Herron, Martha Nevin, daughter of William. 
Johnston, Edminston, son of George. 
Johnston, Joseph, son of Benjamin. 
McClelland, James, son of William. 
McClelland, Joseph, son of Thomas. 
McConnell, Sarah Ann, daughter of William. 
McCord, William Cyrus, son of Andrew. 
McKinney, Samuel Irvin, son of Samuel. 
McKinney, Thomas, son of Samuel. 
McKinney, Molly, daughter of Samuel. 
McKnight, Charles McClay, son of David. 
Montgomery, Andrew, son of James. 
Montgomery, James, son of James. 
Pomeroy, Thomas Blair, son of Charles. 
Reynolds, Charles McClay, son of William. 
Rippey, Margaret, daughter of Colonel John. 
Rodgers, William, son of James. 
Smith, Thomas Jefferson, son of Abraham. 
Smith, Samuel Davis, son of Abraham. 
Taylor, Jean. 

Turner, Adam McCurdy, son of James. 
White, John, son of John, Jr. 
Woodrow, Jean, daughter of Samuel. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 9. 1811 



Atcheson, Mary. 

Barr, Isabella, daughter of James. 

Caldwell, Nancy, daughter of John. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 75 

Clark, David Duncan, son of Samuel. 

Carotliers, Catharine. 

Davis, David Moore, son of John. 

Duncan, Rebecca, daughter of William. 

Green, Eliza Herron, daughter of William. 

Hanna, David, son of Samuel. 

Hayes, Robert, son of Patrick. 

Hayes, David, son of Wilson. 

Martin, Hannah, daughter of Colonel Thomas. 

McCune, Margaret, daughter of Samuel. 

Nevin, Elizabeth Finley, daughter of John. 

Nevin, Joseph Price, son of David. 

Patterson, Margaret, daughter of William. 

Paxton, Samuel, son of John. 

Peebles, Susan, daughter of Robert. 

Robb, Sarah, daughter of Andrew. 

Runshaw, Martha Ann, daughter of William. 

Simeril, William Strain, son of David. 

Smith, Mary. 

Smith, Mary Ann, daughter of Robert. 

Smith, Frances Jean, daughter of James. 

Smith, Joseph Wilson, son of James. 

Snodgrass, James Henderson, son of William. 

Stewart, James Morrison, son of Dr. Alexander. 

Sturgeon, William, son of Samuel. 

Tate, Samuel. 

Tate, Catharine, daughter of Samuel. 

Thompson, Anna Kezia. 

Trimble, William, son of Thomas. 

Wills, John, son of John. 

Wallace, Jesse, son of James. 

White, Thompson John, son of Charles. 



7G THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Woodrow, Margaret, daughter of Samuel. 
Woods, Mary Ann. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIE. 1812. 



Baily, Harriet Isabella, daughter of Isabella. 

Barkloe, Dixon, son of Robert. 

Barkloe, Betsy Ann, daughter of Robert. 

Caldwell, Martha, daughter of Samuel. 

Cooper, Elizabeth, daughter of John. 

Davis, Violet, daughter of William. 

Griffin, Elizabeth Andrews, daughter of Edward. 

Hawthorn, Jane, daughter of James. 

Irvin, Kezia, daughter of Andrew. 

Irvin, Nancy, daughter of Andrew. 

Irvin, Stewart, son of Andrew. 

Irvin, Mary Ann, daughter of Andrew. 

Linsey, Martha. 

McClure, Isabella, daughter of William. 

McKee, John Moody, son of James. 

Moody, Margaret, daughter of John. 

Nevin, Caroline, daughter of David. 

Paxton, Nancy Ann, daughter of John. 

Pomeroy, William Reynolds, son of John. 

Quigley, Robert, son of Joseph. 

Quigley, John Carothers, son of James. 

Rodgers, William Denny, son of Andrew. 

Shannon, Margaret, daughter of Joseph. 

Smith, Thomas Sharp. 

Simpson, Mary, daughter of Dr, John. 

Tate, Samuel, son of Samuel. 

Turner, Robert McClelland, son of James. 



PRESBYTEKIAN CHUKCH. 77 



Watson, Eve, daughter of William, 
Weir, James, son of George. 
Wright, Esther, daughter of John. 
Wylie, Elizabeth, daughter of John. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 13. 1813. 



Allison, Hannah, daughter of Hugh. 

Beatty, Kobert, son of John. 

Caldwell, James Smith, son of John. 

Carlisle, Nancy Wallace, daughter of Thomas. 

Clark, William, son of Robert. 

Culbertson, Robert, son of Stephen. 

Donaldson, Jean, daughter ot Robert. 

Duncan, William, son of William. 

Griffin, Margaret, daughter of Edward. 

Hayes, Martha Ann, daughter of Patrick. 

Johnston, George, son of George. 

McCune, Bethsheba, daughter of Samuel. 

McGinniss. Alexander Stewart, son of Joseph. 

McPherson, Robert Alexander, son of Hannah. 

Morrow, Margaret, daughter of Colonel William. 

Nevin, Daniel Eagle, son of John. 

Peoples Elizabeth, daughter of Robert of Alexander. 

Pomeroy, John Holiday, son of Charles. 

Quigley, John, son of Joseph. 

Quigley, Mary Ann, daughter of James. 

Runshaw, James, son of William. 

Snodgrass, Thomas William, son of William. 

Summerville, Mary Ann, daughter of David. 

Smith, James, son of James. 

Thompson. Rachel Maria, daughter of David. 



THE MIDDLE SPEEI^G 



Trimble, Samuel Woods, son of Thomas. 

Watson, John, son of William. 

White, Charles McClay, son of Charles. 

White, Thomas, son of John. 

Williamson, John, son of Johnston. 

Woods, Elizabeth Herron, daughter of Josej^h. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 1814, 



Barr, Joseph Wilson, son of James. 

Clark, Molly, daughter of George. 

Campbell, Mary, daughter of Ebenezer. 

Culbertson, George Johnston, son of Joseph. 

Hayes, Robert Culbertson, son of Wilson. 

Linsey, James Fulton, son of AVilliam. 

McClelland, Lydia, daughter of William. 

McKee, Edward Dixon, son of John. 

McKinney, Jean Louisa, daughter of Major, 

Morrow, Agnes Boyd, daughter of Colonel William. 

Moody, John Witherspoon, son of John. 

Nevin, Edwin Henry, son of David. 

Peebles, Robert, son of Hugh. 

Paxton, John, son of John. 

Porter, Charles, son of James. 

Pye, Eleanor. 

Reynolds, Hugh Williamson, son of William. 

Reynolds, Mary Catharine, daughter of William. 

Rodgers, Eleanor, daughter of James. 

Rodgers, James, son of Andrew. 

Shannon, Ann, daughter of Joseph. 

Smith. George Nelson. 

Snody, Jean, daughter of Adam. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 79 

Stewart, John Raum, son of Dr. Alexander. 
Tate, IMary Jean, daughter of SamueL 
Weir, Sally Ann, daughter of George. 
Wills, Lydia, daughter of John. 
Woodrow, Nancy, daughter of SamueL 
Wylie, Margaret, daughter of John. 
Wylie, Polly, daughter of John. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL n, 1815. 



Allison, John McKibben, son of Samuel. 

Aaron, colored. 

Berry, Elizabeth, bond child of John Criswell. 

Berry, William, son of Margaret. 

Berry, Margaret Jean, daughter of Margaret. 

Berry, Sally Ann, daughter of Margaret. 

Berry, James, son of Margaret. 

Bird, Edwin, son of Joseph. 

Butts, Katharine. 

Broomfield, James, son of James. 

Broomfield, Jean, daughter of James. 

Clark, Charles, son of Robert. 

Criswell, David, son of John. 

Criswell, Eliza, daughter of John. 

Cox, Mary, daughter of John. 

Cummins, Thomas, son of James. 

Culbertson, David Hayes, son of Stephen. 

Davis, Letitia, daughter of William. 

Devor, Bethsheba, daughter of Joseph. 

Donaldson, Huston, son of Robert. 

Dinah, daughter of Aaron. 

Dysart, John, son ot Benjamin. 



80 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Gibb, Susanna, daughter of Eleanor. 
Gibb, Agnes, daughter of Eleanor. 
Gibb, Jean, daughter of Eleanor. 
Gibb, Nelly Ann, daughter of Eleanor. 
Gibb, Samuel, son of Eleanor. 
Hayes, Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick. 
Hawthorn, James, son of James. 
Laughlin, Margaret, daughter of John, 
Laughlin, Williani, son ot John. 
Long, Nancy. 

Long, Harriett, daughter of Benjamin. 
Long, David, son of Benjamin. 
Long William, son of Benjamin. 
Long, Mary, daughter of Benjamin. 
Long, Eliza Jean, daughter of Benjamin. 
McClure, Andrew Moody, son of William. 
McGinniss, Jean Eliza, daughter of Jose])!!. 
McGinniss, James, son of George. 
Mc Willia ms. Ma rgaret. 
Monosmith, Mary, daughter of Elizabeth. 
Morrow, Mary, daughter of Colonel William. 
Moore, William Craig, son of James. 
Moore, Mary Ann, daughter of James. 
Nevin, Theodore Hugh, son of Jolm. 
Paxton, Elizabeth, daugliter of John. 
Pomeroy, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of C'li;nl 
Quigley, Margaret Jean, daughter of Joscpli. 
Ritchey, Jean, daughter of Mary. 
Ritchey John, son of Mary. 
Ritchey, Betsy, dau.<>hter of jMary. 
Ritchey, Sanmel, son of Mary. 
Ritchey,' Molly, daugliter of Mary. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 81 

Simpson, Louisa, daughter of Dr. John. 

Smith, Samuel, son of William. 

Smith, William, son of William. 

Smith, James, son of William. 

Smith, John, son of William. 

Smith, Amanda, daughter of William. 

Smith, Mary Boyd. 

Sturgeon, Kachel Teressa, daughter of Samuel. 

Thompson, William. 

Thompson, Robert, son of William. 

Thompson, Leah McCance, daughter of David. 

White, John, son ot John. 

Williamson, Margaret Reynolds, daughter of Johnston. 

Wylie, Catharine, daughter of John. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 9, 1816. 



Allison, Joseph, son of Hugh. 

Beatty, Isabella Brown, daughter of Robert. 

Carlisle, William Crawford, son of Ruth. 

Clark, David, son of George. 

Clark, Mary. 

Clark, William, son of Mary. 

Clark, Daniel Calvin, son of Mary. 

Clark, Letitia, daughter of Samuel. 

Colwell, Hadasseh, Jean, daughter of Samuel. 

Cox, Sara, daughter of John. 

Culbertson, Joseph Duncan, son of Stephen. 

Devor, William, son of Joseph. 

Dysart, David Morrow, son of Margaret. 

Finley, Sarh Work, daughter of Dr. William. 

Galbreath, John Henry, son of Robert. 



82 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Hammil, Kobert, son of William. ^ 

Hays, William Hamilton, son of Wilson. 

Hawthorn, John, son of James. 

Henderson, Jean, daughter of John. 

Herron, Francis, son of Mrs. J. 

Herron, William, son of Mrs. J. 

Kearsley, Edward Koberts, son of Jonathan. 

Martin, John, son of Paul. 

McClure, Samuel, son of David. 

McCune, John, son of Samuel. 

McKee, John, son of John. 

McKibben, Hannah, daughter of John. 

Monosmith, Elizabeth Dunwiddie. 

Moore, Margaretta, daughter of Andrew. 

Moodey, James Crawford, son of John. 

Morrow, Jane McCune, daughter of Colonel William. 

Nevin, Alfred, son of David. 

Peebles, James Walker, son of Alexander. 

Peebles, Sarah, daughter of Robert. 

Quigley, Joseph, son of Joseph. 

Runshaw, Isaac, son of William. 

Snody, Ann. 

Snody, Matilda Jean, daughter of John. 

Snody, Sally, daughter of Adam. 

Thompson, Elizabeth, daughter of William. 

Weir, George Paxton, son of George. 

Watson, David, son of William. 

Wherry, David, son of John. 

White, Samuel, son of Johnston. 

Wilson, Adolphus, son of Charles. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 83 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 8, 1817. 



Clark, Molly Ann, daughter of William, 

Clark, Jean Carothers, daughter of William. 

Colwell, Jean, daughter of John. 

Culbertson, Joseph, son of Joseph. 

Donavon, Robert, son of Joseph. 

Duncan, Samuel, son of David. 

Finley, Margaretta, daughter of Dr. William. 

Griffin, George Clark, son of Edward. 

Hays, James Henderson, son of Robert. 

Hays, William, son of Patrick. 

Henderson, James, son of John. 

Kelso, Margaret, daughter of Samuel. 

Laughlin, Elizabeth, daughter of John. 

Ludwig, Charles, son of Ann. 

Ludwig, Samuel, son of Ann. 

McCune, Alexander Sharpe, son of Samuel. 

McGinniss, Joseph Woodrow, son of Joseph, 

]McGinniss, Mary Jean, daughter of George. 

McKinney, Joseph Edwards, son of Captain Joseph. 

Moore, James Hamilton Wallace, son of Andrew. 

Paxton, Margaret, daughter of John. 

Ritchey, Susanna, daughter of Andrew. 

Shannon, Catharine Ann, daughter of John. 

Snody, Mary Wolf, daughter of Adam. 

Stewart, Juliana, daughter of Dr. 

Williamson, Mary Euphrosyne, daughter of Johnston. 

Woods, Hannah, daughter of David. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIE 14. i8i8- 



Colwell, Betsy Ann, daughter of Samuel. 



84 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Culbertson, Annetta, daughter of Stephen. 
Davis, Catharine, daughter of William. 
Duncan, David, son of David. 
Dysart, Margaret, daughter of Benjamin. 
Galbreath, Thomas, son of Robert. 
Highlands, William, son of William. 
Irvin, John, son of James. 
Kelso, Susanna, daughter of James. 
Love, Eliza, daughter of James. 
Martin, Mary Jane, daughter of Paul. 
McClure, Robert Peebles, son of David. 
Morrow, William, son of Colonel William. 
Nevin, Samuel, son of David. 
Nicholson, Hannah, Jane. 
Paxton, Amanda, daughter of John. 
Quigley, Eleanor, daughter of Joseph. 
Tate, Sally Ann, daughter of Samuel. 
Watson, Susanna, daughter of William. 
White, Mary Eleanor, daughter of Johnston. 
Woods, Elizabeth, daughter of David. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 13, 1819. 



Barr, Jean, son of James. 

Clark, Mary Trimble, daughter of George. 

Criswell, Margaretta, daughter of John. 

Cox, Samuel, son of John, 

Devor, Catharine, daughter of John. 

Donaldson, Isabella, daughter of Robert. 

Donavon, William Trimble, son of Joseph. 

Duncan, Samuel, son of William. 

Frazer, Mary Ann, daughter of Andrew. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 85 

Green. Jean Rodgers, daughter of John. 

Green, Mary, daughter of EKzabeth. 

Green, David Mahon, son of Elizabeth. 

Green, William, son of William. 

Hammil, George Abraham, son of William. 

Hays, Martha Ann, daughter of .Wilson. 

Henderson, Margaret, daughter of John. 

Kelso, William Alexander, son of Samuel. 

Kelso, James Kilpatrick, son of James. 

Kearsley, Martha Immil, daughter of Major Jonathan. 

Laughlin, Hugh, son of John. 

Mahon, Sarah, daughter of David. 

Mahon, Mary, daughter of David. 

Mahon, Emily, daughter of David. 

jNIahon, Martha, daughter of David. 

Mahon, David, son of David. 

McClure, Mary Jean, daughter of Hugh. 

McCune, Samuel Elder, son of Samuel. 

McCune, James, son of Robert. 

MeGinniss, Anna Cochran, daughter of George. 

Moody, Joseph Hutchinson, son of John. 

Morrow, Elizabeth McElvaine, daughter of Colonel 

William. 
Nevin, Margaretta, daughter of David. 
Nimmon, Sarah Jean, daughter of Adam. 
Paxton, David son of John. 
Peebles, Jean, daughter of Robert. 
Reynolds, George, son of Benjamin. 
Ritchey, Rebecca. 
Shoemaker, Martin, son of Susan. 
Snody, Benjamin Johnston, son of Adam. 
Simpson, Hannah, daughter of Dr. 



86 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Stewart, Samuel, son of Dr. 
Stewart, Rachel, daughter of Robert. 
Sturgeon, Mary Jean, daughter of John. 
Summerville, John, son of David. 
Weir, Elizabeth, daughter of George. 
White, James Eaton, son of Johnston. 
Woods, John Simpson, son of Joseph. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL, n, 1820. 



Cox, William Alexander, son of John. 
Culbertson, James Wilson, son of Stephen. 
Davis, Hugh. 

Devor, Agnes Jean, daughter of John. 
Donovan, Mary, daughter of Robert. 
Duncan, Eliza Jean, daughter of David. 
Dysart, James, son of Benjamin. 
Hays, Jean, daughter of Patrick. 
Irvin, Benjamin Franklin, son of John. 
Kelso, James, son of Samuel. 
McClure, John Edward, son of David. 
Mclntire, Robert, son of William. 
Morrow, James Boyd, son of Colonel William. 
Nevin, Robert Peebles, son of John. 
Peoples, Alexander Weir, son of Alexander. 
Quigley, James Sharp, son of Joseph. 
Reynolds, Susan, daugliter ol Benjamin. 
Runshaw, Joseph, son of William. 
Snody, James Fleming, son of John. 
Stewart, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert. 
White, James Morrison. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 87 

Williamson, Elizabeth Johnston, daughter of Johnston. 
Woods, John, son of David. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL lo, 1821. 



Colwell, Hugh Martin, son of Samuel. 

Duncan, Ann Eliza, daughter of John. 

Duncan, David, son of William. 

Duncan, Rachel Teressa, daughter of William. 

Finley, William Aaron Augustus, son of Dr. 

Galbreath, Mary, daughter of Robert. 

Green, James, son of William. 

Hammil, Charlotte, daughter of George. 

Hammil, Elizabeth, daughter of George. 

Hammil, George Washington, son of George. 

Hammil, INIary, daughter of George. 

Hammil, Samuel Rippey, son of George. 

Hammil, William Cromwell, son of William. 

Herron, Hannah Jean, daughter of Francis. 

Kelso, Mary Jean, daughter of James. 

Laughlin, Samuel, son of John. 

Martin, James, son of David. 

McClnre, Bethsheba. 

IMcClure, John, son of Bethsheba. 

McCoy, Daniel. 

INIcKee, Mary Jean, daughter of John. 

Means, Samuel Woods, son of Joseph McCord. 

Moore, John Moody, son of Andrew. 

Nevin, Jane McCallister, daughter of David. 

Nicholson, John, son of Eliza. 

Nimmon, John Skinner, son of Adams. 

Smith Hugh, son of Samuel. 



88 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Stockton, Henrietta. 

Stockton, Mary Ann. 

Swansey, Eleanor Reynolds, daughter of Samuel. 

Thompson, James Rea, son of William. 

White, Elvina Jean, daughter of Johnston. 

Woods, Joseph Porter, son of Joseph. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 9, 1822. 



Campbell, Eleanor, daughter of Ebenezer. 
Culbertson, Mary, daughter of Stephen. 
Davis, Martha Ann, daughter of William. 
Devor, Agnes Jane, daughter of Joseph. 
Donovan, John Carren, son of Joseph. 
Frazer, Eliza Jane, daughter of Andrew. 
Hays, Mary Jane, daughter of Wilson. 
Herron, Hannah Deeper, daughter of John. 
Highlands, James, son of William. 
Irvin, Amanda Caroline, daughter of John. 
Irvin, Mary Jean, daughter of James. 
Kelso, Isabella Brown, daughter of Samuel. 
Kelso, James Alexander, son of Alexander. 
Dinn, Mary Galbreath, daughter of William. 
Maclay, Abigail Catharine, daughter of John. 
Maclay, Hannah Jane, daughter of John. 
Maclay, Divia Eliza, daughter of John. 
Maclay, Margaret Reynolds, daughter of John. 
Maclay, Sarah Ellen, daughter of John. 
McCune, Eleanor Jane, daughter of Samuel. 
McCune, Ehzabeth, daughter of John. 
McCune, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert, 
McGinniss John Reynolds, son of George. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 89 

Stewart, Joanna. 

Stewart, John, son of Robert. 

Stewart, Mary Ann, daughter of Robert. 

Mclntire, James, son of William. 

Morrow, John Boyd, son of Colonel William. 

Paxton, Sarah Jean, daughter of John. 

Williamson, David, son of Johnston. 

Wilson, John, son of Anna. 

Wilson, Joseph, son of Anna. 

Wilson, Mary Ann Herron, daughter of Anna, 

Wilson, Robert, son of Anna. 

Woods, William, son of David, 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 8, 1823. 



Donaldson, Margaret Ramsey, daughter of Robert. 
Duncan, Alexander McComb, son of William. 
Duncan, Hugh McCune, son of William of David. 
Duncan, John, son of David. 
Finley, Edward Joseph, son of Dr. 
Hammil, George, son of George. 
Henderson, Martha, daughter of John. 
Herron, William Andrew, son of Francis. 
Kelso, Isabella, daughter of James. 
Means, Jane Mary, daughter of Joseph. 
Mitchell, Elsy Jean, daughter of William. 
Moore, Andrew McElwaine, son of Joseph. 
Moore, James Monroe, son of Joseph. 
Moore, Rebecca Jean, daughter of Joseph. 
Nevin, Martha Mary, daughter of John. 
Nimmon, George Davidson, son of Adams. 
Peebles, John Moodey, son of Alexander. 



90 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Quigley, Lucy Cook, daughter of Captain John. 

Kunshaw, Mary, daughter of William, 

Shannon, Andrew Campbell, son of Hugh. 

Shannon, Julius, son of Hugh. 

Shannon, Mary Jean, daughter of Hugh. 

Shannon, Missouri Ann, daughter of Hugh. 

Shannon, Ruhama, daughter of Hugh. 

Shannon, Samuel Worthy, son of Hugh. 

Simpson, Elizabeth Murphy, daughter of Dr. William 

Thompson, Kezia, daughter of William. 

White, William Johnston, son of Johnston. 

Alexander, child of Betsy, colored. 

Elizabeth, child of Betsy. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRII. 13, 1824. 



Cox, John Irvin, son of John. 

Donavon, Joseph Trimble, son of Joseph. 

Duncan, Culbertson Breckenridge, son of David. 

Duncan, Sarah Ann, daughter of David. 

Ferguson, Mary Jane, daughter of John. 

Frazer, William Wilson, son of Andrew. 

Hays, Wm. David Ebenezer, son of Widow Marjory. 

Henderson, Elizabeth Wiggins, daughter of John. 

Hudson, Agnes Boyd. 

Hudson, Mary Ann. 

Kelso, John Snody, son of James. 

Kelso, Margaret Ann, daughter of Samuel. 

Kelso, Samuel, son of William. 

Linn, Grizelda, daughter of William and Mary. 

Maclay, Charles Templeton, son of David and Eleanor. 

Maclay, David. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 91 

jMaclay, Francis Herron, son of David and Eleancjr. 

Maclay, Jame.^, son of David and Eleanor. 

Maclay, John. 

Maclay, Mary Eleanor, daughter of David and Eleanor. 

McCormick, Joseph Weakly, son of George. 

McCiine, Bethsheba Sterritt, daughter of Robert. 

McCune, Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas. 

McCune, Samuel Cox, son of Alexander. 

McCune, William Dona von, sou of John. 

McCune, William Duncan, son of JoJm. 

Means, Martha B., daughter of Joseph. 

Paxton, James Henderson, son of Joseph. 

Peebles, Robert Nevin, son of Alexander. 

Skelly, Johnston Hastings, son of Rebecca. 

Skelly, Mary. 

Skelly, Rebecca Jane, daughter of Rebecca. 

Skelly, William. 

Smith, James Purdy, son of Samuel. 

Snody, Mary Reynolds, daughter of Johnston. 

Strain, Isaac son of Robert. 

Swansey, William Mitchell, son of Samuel. 

White, James Richards, son of Ann. 

White, Sarah Henderson, daughter of Ann. 

WiUiamson, Adaline Franklin, daughter of Johnston. 

Woods, Cinthia Ann, dauditer of David. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 12, 1825. 



Allen, Montgomery Johnston. 
Calhoun, Francis Doanvon, daughter of Louisa. 
Calhoun, Narcissa. daughter of Louisa. 
Calhoun Martha, daughter of Louisa. 
Calhoun, Sarah Jane, daughter of Louisa. 



92 THE MIDDLE SPKING 



Hudson, Bethsheba McCuiie. 
McCoy, Patrick Grier. 
McCune, Jemima Kyle, daughter of Robert. 
McCune, Sarah Jane, daughter of Thomas. 
Mclntire, Agnes, daughter of William. 
McKee, Elizabeth Adaline, daughter of John. 
Mitchell, John, son of William. 
Montgomery, William Kilgore, son of Ramsey. 
Nimmon, William Adams, son of Adams. 
Peebles, John Herron, son of Isaac. 
Quigley, Agnes, daughter of Joseph. 
Shane, James Andrew, son of William. 
Speer, Sally Ann, daughter of David. 
Watson, James Wallace, son of William. 
White, Susan Ann, daughter of Johnston. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL ii, 1826. 



Cairns, Sarah Ann. 

Cox, Hugh, son of John. 

Cressler, Mary McCune, daughter of William. 

Ferguson, Elizabeth, daughter of John. 

Frazer, Benjamin Boyd, son of Andrew. 

Gray, William. 

Henderson, Isabella, daughter of John. 

Irvin, John Andrew, son of John. 

Linn, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of AVilliam. 

McCormick, James King, son of George. 

McCune, Isabella, daughter of Samuel, 

McCune, John Sterrett, son of John. 

Means, Samuel Woods, son of Joseph. 

Peebles, Arabella Maria, daughter of Isaac. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



Peebles, Benjamin Ellsworth, son of William. 
Peebles James, son of William. 
Peebles, Kobert, son of William. 
Peebles, William David, son of William. 
Shannon, Samuel Alexander, 
Sharp, Elizabeth, daughter of James. 
Smith, Letitia, daughter of Samuel. 
Snody, William Johnston, son of Johnston. 
Woods, David Herron, son of David. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL lo, 1827. 



Caldwell, John Breckenridge, son of James. 
Cressler, George Halo way, son of William. 
Devor, Thompson White, son of John. 
Donovan, Martha, daughter of Joseph. 
Humes, Nancy. 
Linsey, Harriett. 
McCommon, Jane. 
McCune, James, son of Samuel. 
McCune, John Augustus Caldwell, son of Alexander. 
Miller, Samuel Montgomery, son of William, 
Mitchell, Mary, daughter of William. 
IMontgomery, Samuel son of Ramsey. 
Morrow, Bethsheba McCune, daughter of Colonel Will- 
iam. 
Nimmon, Mary, daughter of Adams. 
Patterson, James Moles, son of Francis. 
Rodgers, James Linn, son of James. 
Speer, James Patterson, son of William. 
Spence, Eleanor Ann, daughter of John. 
Stewart, Catharine, daughter of Robert. 



94 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Wilson, Isaac Ward. 
Wilson, Margaret. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIE 8, 182S. 



Bowman, Eleanor, daughter of Andrew. 

Bowman, Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew. 

Bowman, Nancy Catharine, daughter of Andrew. 

Cairns, Susanna, daughter of Hugh. 

Callen, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of William. 

Cochran, James Linn, son Robert. 

Cochran, Margaret Arthurs, daughter of Robert. 

Cox, Martha Ann, daughter of John. 

Davis, Mary Stewart, daughter of Robert. 

Donaldson, Agnes Caroline, daughter of Robert. 

Herron, James Andrew, son of Davidson. 

Jacob, Joseph Young, son of David. 

Kelso, William, son of James. 

Linn, Thomas Patterson, son of William. 

Maclay, William John, son of John. 

McCune, Robert, son of Thomas. 

McCune, Samuel, son of John. 

McKee, James Alexander, son of Joseph. 

McKnight, Catharine, daughter of John. 

Means, Joseph McCord, son of Joseph. 

Quigley, Isaac Andrew, son of Joseph. 

Reynolds, John William, son of McPherson. 

Thompson, William Smith, son of William, 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 14, 1829. 



Boyd, Margaret Young. 

Caldwell, Martha, daughter of James. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 95 

Cairns, Agnes, daughter of Hugh. 
Cochran, Hetty Bird, daughter of Robert. 
Donavon, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph. 
Ferguson, WilHam, son of James. 
Johnston, Jane, daughter of George. 
IMcCune, Keziah, daughter of Kobert. 
MeCune, Mary, daughter of Samuel, 
McKinney, David, son of Abraham Smith. 
INIeans, James Kamsey, son of Joseph. 
Mitchell, Samuel Hanna, son of William. 
Raum, Jolm Moody, son of 13r. William. 
Raum, William Cyrus, son of Dr. William. 
Smith, David Duncan, son of Samuel. 
Stewart Mary. 
Stewart David. 
Walker, Sarah Catharine, daughter of William. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 13, 1830. 



Calleu, Mary Ann Moody, daughter of William. 

Crisler, John Ritchey, son of William. 

Duncan, Rebecca, daughter of William of David. 

Duncan, Letitia, daughter of William of David. 

Duncan, Hannah Jane, daughter of William of David. 

Jacobs, William Davidson, 

Kelso, Elizabeth, daughter of James. 

Linn, Sarah Ann, daughter of William. 

MePherson, George Edward, son of Reynolds. 

McCune, Eleanor Jane, daughter of Robert. 

McCune, Bethsheba, daughter of John. 

Nimmon, Elizabeth Moodey, daughter of Adams. 

Quigley, David Grier, son of Joseph. 



96 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Ramsey, James, son of Montgomery. 

Ramsey, Isabella Mathers, daughter of JMontgomery. 

Reynolds, William, son of John. 

Rodgers, Andrew Denny, son of James. 

Sharp, John McCune, son of James. 

Smith, William Rodgers, son of Robert. 

Steen, Mary Jane, daughter of Alexander. 

Thompson, Hadessah, daughter of William. 

Woods, Martha, daughter of David. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL. 12, 1 831. 



Boyd, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of John. 

Cairns, Samuel Alexander, son of Hugh. 

Davis, Isabella, daughter of Robert. 

Frazer, Hugh Alexander, son of Andrew, 

Hemphill, Elizabeth, daughter of Moses, 

Johnston, Robert Clark, son of George. 

McKinney, William Reynolds, son of Abraham Smith. 

Means, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph. 

Mitchell, William, son of William. 

Rank, William, son of John. 

Rank, Mary Ann, daughter of John. 

Shannon, Robert James, son of Ruhama. 

Thompson, John, son of William. 

Walker, Samuel, son of William. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 10, 1832. 



Colwell, Samuel, son of James. 
Donavon, Mary, daughter of Joseph. 
Kelso, Benjamin, son of James. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 97 

Devor, David Herron, son of John. 

Donaldson, Elizabeth Sprout, daughter of Robert. 

Hays, Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of Wilson. 

McKee, Barbara Ann, daughter of Jolin. 

McKee, Benjamin Franklin, son of John. 

McKinney, Jennet Smith, daughter of Abraham Smith. 

McPherson, Samuel Henderson, son ot Eeyuolds. 

Miller, Daniel. 

Patterson, Jane Ann, daughter of Francis. 

Sliarp, Robert, son of James. 

Speer, Sarah Jane Wilson, daughter of Wilson. 

Steen, Francis Herron, son of Alexander. 

Woods, Catharine, daughter of David. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 9. 1833. 



Barr, Jane, daughter of Dr. William. 

Barr, Joseph, son of Dr. William. 

Cairns, Margaret, daughter of Hugh. 

Colwell, Agnes, daughter of James. 

Culbertson, Denton, son of John. 

Culbertson, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John. 

Devor, Agnes Ann. 

Devor, Elizabeth Catharine, daughter of John. 

Duncan, William, son of William. 

Hemphill, Cinthia Jane, daughter of Moses. 

Maclay, Mary Jane. 

Maelay, John Enoch. 

Maclay, Eleanor, daughter of Samuel and Margaret. 

Maclay, Charles Henry Templeton, son of Samuel and 

Margaret. 
Maclay, Elizabeth Margaret, daughter of Samuel and 

Margaret. 



98 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Maclay, Thomas James, son of Samuel and Margaret. 

Maclay, Robert Snodgrass, son of Samuel and Margaret. 

Maclay, Samuel Dixon, son of Samuel and Margaret. 

McCune, Molly Campbell. 

McCune, Rebecca, daughter of Robert Gibb. 

McCune, David, son of John. 

McCune, Keziah Mary, daughter of Alexander. 

McGinley, John Alexander, son of John. 

McKnight, John, son of John. 

Montgomery, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of J. R. 

Montgomery, Robert McFarlane, son of J. R. 

Means, Joseph McCord, son of Joseph McCord. 

McPherson, Benjamin Reynolds, son of Reynolds. 

Raura, Mary Catharine Rippey, daughter of Jacob. 

Ritchey, Susan. 

Ritchey, Rachel, daughter of Samuel. 

Speer, Hannah Jane. 

Thompson, Alexander, son of William. 

Ward, Jane Quigley, daughter of Isaac. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIE 14, 1834. 



Allen, Jane Elizabeth, daugliter of Montgomery. 
Allen, ]\Iary Emily, daughter of Montgomery. 
Allen, Susan Amanda, daughter of Montgomery. 
Cairns, Mary Letitia, daughter of Hugh. 
Cressler, William Clippinger, son of William. 
Frazer, John Moody, son of Andrew. 
Hemphill, Mary Fulton, daughter of Moses. 
Johns'on, Rebecca, daughter of George. 
Kelso, William Alexander, son of James. 
Kelso, Sarah, daughter of James. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 99 

Linn, Martha, daughter of William. 

McCune, James, son of John. 

McCune, Margaret Isabella, daughter of Robert. 

McKinney, Abraham Smith, son of Abraham Smith. 

Means, Joseph McCord, son of Joseph. 

Miller, George. 

Nimmon, Mary Ann, daughter of Adams. 

Patterson, John, son of Francis, 

Sharp, William Craig, son of James. 

Walker, Mary, daughter of William. 

Wherry, Eleanor Sharp, daughter of Samuel. 

Wherr}^ Margaret Jane, daughter of Samuel. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 23, i83{ 



Colwell, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of James. 
Gibb, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Nancy. 
McCune, Edmund James, son of Alexander. 
McKinney, Elizabeth McClay, daughter of Abraham 

Smith. 
McPherson, Theodore Horatius, son of Reynolds. 
Means, William Davidson, son cf Joseph M. 
Miller, William. 

Patterson, Mary Eleanor, daughter of Francis. 
Smith, William Anderson, son of Samuel. 
Sharp, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of James. 
Thompson, Rebecca Jane, daughter of William. 

REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 11, 1837- 



Duncan, Eliza Jane, daughter of William of David. 

Culbertson, Joseph, son of John. 

Frazer, Susan Rosetta, daughter of Andrew. 



100 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Hemphill, Caroline, daughter of Moses. 
Hays, Edgar Wilson, son of David. 
Maelay, Jane Ellen, daughter of John. 
Mitchell, Samuel Hanna, son of William. 
Mitchell, Margaret Wherry, daughter of William. 
Montgomery, Jesse Edmund, son of Ramsey. 

REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL, lo, 1838. 



Cressler, David Williamson, sou of William. 

Culbertson, William Edgar, son of John. 

McCune, Eugene, son of Robert, 

McCune, Theodore Glen, son of Robert. 

McKinney, William Reynolds, son of Abraham Smith. 

Means, Agnes Rebecca, daughter of Joseph M. 

Montgomery, Charles Alfred, son of James Ramsey. 

Sharp, Eleanor, daughter of James. 

Smith, Anson, son of Robert. 

Wherry, Samuel McCune, son of Samuel. 

REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 9. 1839. 



Allen, Thomas Erasmus, son of Montgomery. 
Barr, Thomas, son of Dr. William. 
Hemphill, James, son of Moses. 
Kelso, Samuel, son of James. 
Linn, William Andrew, son of William. 
Patterson, Cassadelia, daughter of Francis. 
Pilgrim, Henry, son of John and Martha Ann, 
Smith, Margaret Ann, daughter of Samuel. 
Walker, William, son of William. 

REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY, APRIL 14, 1840. 

McCoy, Rebecca, 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 101 

McKinney, Anna, daughter of Abraham Smith. 
REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL, 1841. 



Hemphill, Robert Clark, son of Moses. 

Hays, John Colwell, son of David. 

Green, William Elder, son of John and Bethsheba. 

Maria, (colored.) 

McCune, Benjamin Sterrett, son of John. 

McCune, William Alexander, son of Alexander. 

Maclay, James Hemphill, son of John. 

Mitchell, Elizabeth, daughter of William. 

Montgomery, Ferdinand Rankin, son of James. 

Pilgrim, William Runshaw, son of John and Martha. 

Wherry, Alexander, son of Samuel. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY, APRIL, 1842. 



Culbertson, Joseph, son of John. 
Culbertson, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John. 
Frazer, James Wallace, son of Andrew. 
Green, Robert Welch, son of John. 
McCune, David McClay, son of Samuel Elder. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 14, 1843. 



Hays, James Hamilton, son of David. 

Hemphill, William Jack, son of Moses. 

McCune, Jane Mary, daughter of John. 

McCune, Margaret Strain, daughter of John. 

Means, John Alfred, son of Joseph M. 

McKinney, Margaret Jane, daughter of Abraham Smith. 

Neir, Margaret. 

Sharp, Joseph Alexander, son of James. 



102 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY, APRIL, 1844. 



Barr, Margaret Isabella, daughter of Dr. William, 
CulbertsoD, Sarah Jane, daughter of John. 
Green, William, son of John. 
McCune, John Theodore, son of Samuel Elder. 
Pilgrim, Margaret, daughter of John. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL, 1845. 



Duncan, William Breckenridge, son of Samuel. 
Green, Mary Ann, daughter of James. 
Hays, David Duncan, son of David. 
Hemphill, Charles, son of Moses, 
Maclay, Martha Ellen, daughter of Francis. 
Maclay, Emma Jane, daughter of Francis. 
McCune, Ellen Jane, daughter of Bobert. 
McKinney, John Beynolds, son of Abraham Smith. 
Montgomery, Josej^h Hemphill, son of J. Bamsey. 
Boad, Annetta, daughter of John and Henrietta. 
Bunshaw, Elizabeth Coover, daughter of David. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 4, 1846. 

McCune, Hugh Brady, son of John of Hugh. 
Pilgrim, Samuel, son of John. 
Quigley, James Brown, son of Bobert of Joseph. 
Wherry, Barbara Ann, daughter of Colonel William. 



RP:pORTED to PRESBYTERY APRIL, 184; 

Barr, Mary Ann, daughter of William. 
Culbertson, Margaret Clara, daughter of John. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 103 

Frazer, Thompson, son of Andrew. 
Hays, Robert Alexander, son of David. 
Laughlin, Mary Ann, daughter of Robert and Maria, 
Langhlin, Noah McVeety, sou of Robert and Maria. 
Laughlin, John, son of Robert and Maria. 
Laughlin, Robert, son of Robert and Maria. 
Laughlin, Emeline, daughter of Robert and Maria. 
]\Iaelay, John Cox, son of Francis. 
McCune, Rebecca Jane, daughter of John. 
Quigley, JNIary Martha, daughter of Robert of Joseph. 
Runshaw, Martha Ann, daughter of Joseph, 
Young, John Ambrose. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY, 1848. 



Bowen, James. 

Bowen, John Armor, son of James Jackson. 

Bowen, Mary Ellen, daughter of James Jackson. 

Bowen, Saiah Jane, daughter of James Jackson. 

Bowen, Francina, daughter of James Jackson. 

Bowen, James Edward, son of James Jackson. 

Duncan, Sarah Ann, daughter of Samuel. 

Henderson, Margaret, daughter of James. 

Hemphill, Joseph Sharp, son of Moses. 

Green, Elizabeth, daughter of John. 

IMcCullough, Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of William. 

IMcCullough, Isabel, daughter of William. 

McCullough, Sarah, daughter of William. 

McCuUough, Martha Ann, daughter of William. 

Pomeroy, Alexander Wilson, son of Thomas. 

Stockton, Nancy Elizabeth. 

Wherry, William Elder, sou of Samuel. 

Cox, Jane Youuir. 



104 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 1849. 

Culbertson, John Moody, son of John. 
Hays, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of David. 
Henderson, John Strain, son of James, Jr. 
Runshaw, Edward Hays, son of Joseph. 
Runshaw, William Johnston, son of David. 
Runshaw, Kitty Ann. 
Sterritt, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of David. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL, 1850. 



Frazer, William McLean, son of William. 
Henderson, James Bunyan. 
McCarron, Rosanna. 
O'Brian Mary. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY JULY, 1850. 



Allen, Annie Mary, daughter of James. 

Brown, Nancy Elizabeth, daughter of James. 

Culbertson, Elizabeth Frances, daughter of John. 

Duncan, John, son of Samuel. 

Frazer, Lucetta Ann, daughter of AVilliam W. 

Hudson, Rosanna. 

Martin, William Scott, son of John. 

jMcCune, James Albert, son of Samuel Elder. 

Morrow, John Wallace, son of William. 

Pomeroy Anna Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas. 

Runshaw, James, son of Simpson. 

Smith, Moses Robin, son of Samuel. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 105 

REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 8, 185 1. 



Elliott, Theodore Brown, son of Robert. 

Frazer, Andrew, son of William 

Henderson, Helen Elizabeth, daughter of James, Jr. 

Martin, Hannah Jane, daughter of John and Paulina. 

McCune, Henderson, son of John. 

McCune, Hugh, son of Robert. 

McCune, John, son of Robert. 

McCune, Mary, daughter of Robert. 

McCune, Caroline, daughter of Robert. 

McCune, Susan, daughter of Robert. 

McCune, Bethsheba, daughter of Robert. 

Quigley, Jane Agnes, daughter of Robert. 

Runshaw, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Robert. 

Wherry, Amelia Patterson, daughter of William. 

REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY, AUGUST 11, 1852. 

Number of baptisms by me until this date at Middle 
Spring. 1166 — Moody. 
Bowen, Rachel Craig, daughter of James, 
Cox, Anna Linda, daughter of William. 
Cox, Samuel, son of William. 

Cox, Martha P., daughter of Charles McClay and Mary. 
Cox, Elizabeth Johnston, daughter of Charles McClay 

and Mary. 
Cox, Anna Margaret, daughter of Charles McClay and 

Mary. 
Honorah, Mary, daughter of Charles McClay and Mary. 
McCune, William, son of Dr. 
Quigley, Margaret Ellen, daughter of Robert. 
Robinson, James. 

Robinson, Robert McCune, son of James. 



106 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Ruiisliaw, William Alfred, son of Simpson. 
Young. Florence Jane, daughter of John. 
Young, Martha Marv, daughter of John. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY APRIL 12, 1853. 



Maclay, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Charles. 
Maclay, Emma Catharine, daughter of Dr. Charles. 
Maclay, David, son of Dr. Charles. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY OCT. 6, 1853. 



Elliott, Alfred Finley, son of Robert. 
Hays, Joseph Smith, son of David. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY JANUARY 10, 1854. 



Orr, John Rankin, son of William and Agnes. 



REPORTED TO PRESBYTERY MAY, 1854. 



Brown, James, son of William. 
McCune, John Brice, son of John. 
Smith, David Winfield, son of John. 




Rev. John Moody, D. D. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 107 

MARKIAGES BY REV. JOHN MOODY. 



Adams, William and Sally Huolies, March 16, 1820. 
Allen, William and Lucinda I^ niton. 
Allen, William and Mary Clark, Sept. 12, 1816. 
Allen, George and Isabella McCune, May 1, 1844. 
Allen, James and Sarah Frazer, March 15, 1849, 
Allison, Hugh and Agnes McKibben, April 11, 1811. 
Altick, John and Margaret Byerly, October 2, 1810. 
Alvis, Thomas and Catharine Blade, Jan. 27, 1836. 
Anderson, Charles and Katharine Seaifoss, Nov. 4, 1819. 
Anderson, John aiul Ruth Searfoss, Dec. 17, 1822. 
Anderson, Robert and Cridela Ferguson, Aug. 16, 1827. 
Andrews, Anthony and Else Snody, July 28, 1818. 
Arthur, Joseph and Mary Leeper, Oct. 6, 1803. 
Asper, Elias and Jane McCune Morrow, March 6, 1849. 
Atherton, George and Elizabeth Casey, May 8, 1828. 

Barnet, Charles and Catharine , Oct. 29, 1846. 

Barker, Levi and Elizabeth Byers, Dec. 7, 1847, 
Barr, John and Agnes Davenport, Dec. 27, 1810. 
Barr, John and Maria McCune, July 22, 1811. 
Barr Hugh and Martha Lusk, Feb. 5, 1818. 
Beatty. Samuel and Lucinda Allen, Dec. 9, 1830. 
Beatty, Robert and Mary Kelso, January 31, 1815. 
Beatty, John and Letitia Duncan, Dec. 13, 1853. 
Beatty, James and Isabella Clark, Feb. 17, 1825. 
Beaver, George and Sally Ann Shelter, Aug. 26, 1819. 
Beemer, John and Jean Junkins, Feb. 12, 1824. 
Beeston, James and Susan Hokinsbury, Nov. 22, 1831. 
Bell, David and Mary Quigley, May 22, 1804. 
Bell, Rev. Samuel and Mary Snodgrass, Jan. 3, 1811. 
Berks, George and Catharine Devor, Aug. 17, 1843. 



108 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Berlin, George and Gallaher, Sept. 20, 1836. 

Black, Joseph and Naomi Amos, Nov. 3, 1829. 
Blake, John and Ruth Koch, Oct. 24, 1817. 
Bluhart, John and Ann McCoy, Feb. 14, 1815. 
Bonn, James and Mary Stockton, Jan. 16, 1840. 
Bowers, Jacob and Elizabeth Nickis, Nov. 16, 1824. 
Boyd, William and Sally Walker, Dec. 1, 1825. 
Boyd, John and Elizabeth Walker, March 23, 1826. 
Boyd, Edward and Bethsheba Hays, May 7, 1840. 
Brecken ridge, Samuel and Katharine Redditt, March 9, 

1836. 
Breckenridge. Joseph and Nancy Mahon, June 9, 1836. 
Breckenridge, Andrew and Mary Elliott, June 25, 1838. 
Breckenridge, James and Jane Baird, June 13, 1850. 
Brice, James and Sarah Herron, March 6, 1806. 
Brown, James and Susan Snapper, July 8, 1828. 
Brown, John and Ellen Quigley, Nov. 13, 1844. 
Brown, William and Hannah McCullough, Nov. 21, 

1850. 
Brunkhart, Solomon and Mary Rundecker, Feb. 13, 1824. 
Bucher, William and Kitty Reddick, April 21, 1831. 
Burd, Joseph and Hetty Cochran, Sept. 7, 1813. 
Burkhart, John and Polly Shantz, July 27, 1820. 
Burkhart, John and Mary Barkloe, Feb. 1, 1825. 
Burns, William and Lydia Reddick, April 6, 1841. 
Butts, George and Kathai-ine McWilliams, March 3, 

1814. 
Byers, Frederick and Hannah Gregory, Feb. 7, 1835. 
Caldwell, John and Agnes Smith, May 16, 1809. 
Cameron, James and Rachel Waters, April 6, 1809. 
Campbell, Andrew and Mary Strain, April 14, 1812. 
Campbell, Samuel and Mary Kendel, April 26, 1832. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 109 

Campbell, John and Margaret Templeton, March 4, 

1817. 
Campbell, Daniel and Margaret Woodburn, May 29, 

1821. 
Carlisle, Henry and Catharine Cobaugh, Oct. 6, 1818. 
Carey, William and Isabella Peebles, June 7, 1843. 
Carson, Joseph and Sarah McClelland, Feb. 26, 1807. 
Carson, Andrew and Ruth Clayton, May 21, 1816. 
Cellars, Joshua and Patsy Stough, Oct. 22, 1818. 
Charles, George and Elizabeth Tetwick, Nov. 10, 1814. 

Charlton, Samuel and White, Oct. 6, 1814, 

Charlesworth, Mark and Julian Spear, Aug. 1, 1842. 
Chester, James and Rosanna Sterritt, Sept. 22, 1808. 
Clark, Samuel and Molly Duncan, March 15, 1819. 
Clark, George and Sally Bidleman, Dec. 3, 1816. 
Clark, John and Jane Green, April 9, 1822. 
Clark, George and Mai-garet Herron, March 28, 1831. 
Claudy, Abraham and Betsy ^IcVannan, March 18, 

1806. 
Cochran, Robert and Ehza Linn, June 14, 1827. 
Colfnian, Abraham and Leah Rank, Feb. 15, 1831.- 
Cook, Isaac and Mary Maclay, Nov. 29, 1814. 
Coover, Jeremiah and Sarah Duncan, April 5, 1849. 
Coover, Jacob and Mary Runshaw, Jan. 19, 1843. 

Cox, Samuel and Lowry, April 8, 1813. 

Craig, James and Catharine Smith, March 21, 1850. 
Cressler, William and Susan Ritchey, March 3, 1825. 
Criswell, David and Eliza Frazer, March 18, 1845. 
Criswell, Robert and Elizabeth McElwain, Jan. 11, 1816. 
Criswell, John and Nancy Herron, April 22, 1817. 
Croft, George and Jean Clark, May 11, 1823. 
Culbertson, Charles Mc. and Martha Breckenridge, Dec. 

2, 1852. 



IIQ THE MIDDLE SPUING 



Culbertson, John and Catharine Wiley, March 21, 1833. 
Culbertson, Capt. John and Jane Moody, Sept. 9, 1835. 
Culbertson, David Hays and Mary Linn, Dee. 20, 1843. 
Culbertson, Wilson Hays and Mary Duncan, Aug. 1, 

1844. 
Culbertson, Stephen and Mary Hays, Jan. 9, 1810. 
Culbertson, William and Margaret Herron, Oct. 4, 1810. 
Culbertson, Joseph and Sarah Johnston, May 20, 1813, 
Culbertson, Samuel and Margaret Clayton, March 3, 

1814. 
Cunningham, Kobert and Polly Lyons, June 18, 1816. 
Daly, John and Emily Fenwefl, Nov. 15, 1849. 
Darr, Jacob and Eliza Lindsy, June 6, 182(3. 
Davidson, James and Mary Adams, March 19, 1807. 
Davies, Kobert and Hannah Jamison, May 3, 1821. 
Davis, John and Elizabeth Moore, Oct. 31, 1809. 
Davis, William and Katharine Young, March 28, 1811. 
Davis, Major John and Nancy McGirk, June 20, 1816. 
Davis, Dr. John W. and Ann Hoover, Oct. 19, 1820. 
Davis, William and Leah Schubaugh, Dec, 9, 1828. 
Dean, Daniel and Betsy Breckenridge, Feb. 14, 1822. 
Dennis, James and Mary Clark, April 3, 1834. 
Dennison, James and Agnes Shannon, Dec. 12, 1811. 
Devor, Joseph and Ann Morrow, Oct. 7, 1813, 
Devor John and Ann Thompson, March 18, 1817. 
Dewalt, Henry and Mary Prior, June 8, 1826. 
Ditman, Francis and Elizabech Musser, Jan, 16, 1840. 
Dixon, Charles and Nancy Grimes, May 8, 1827. 
Donaldson, Montgomery and Arabella Smith, Jan. 21, 

1834. 
Donavon, Robert and Rachel Cox, June 9, 1814. 
Donavon, Joseph and Polly Trimble, Oct. 31, 1816. 



PRESBYTEEIAN CHUKCH. Ill 

Doops, Elijah and Eliza, Green, March 22, 1832. 
Doughey, John and Mary Dournbaugh, May 23, 1847. 
Dougherty, James and Susan Traxler, Dec. 30, 1806. 
Doup, George and Elizabeth Nixon, May 31, 1825. 
Druit, Richard and Sarah Pye, Nov. 16, 1815. 
Dunbar, George and Martha Donaldson, Jan. 5, 1824. 
Duncan, Joseph and Agnes Beatty, Oct. 6, 1808. 
Duncan, David and Elizabeth Herron, March 21, 1816. 
Duncan, John and Rebecca McConnel. March 6, 1817. 
Duncan, Capt. David and Eleanor Blake, March 30, 

1824. 
Duncan, Capt. David and Eliza Smith, March 31, 1836. 
Duncan, Samuel and Lucinda Green, Dec. 8, 1842. 
Duncan, David and Grizelda Linn, Dec. 31, 1844. 
Duncle, George and Margaret Boyd, April 1, 1830. 
Dunlap, William and Julia Hemphill, April 4, 1837. 
Dunmore, John and Susan Shoemaker, Oct. 5, 1820. 
Ealy, Jacob and Sally Kearsley, June 21, 1818. 
Early, James and Mary Patterson, Aug. 24, 1813. 
Early, Robert, Jr., and Jane McCormick, Oct. 19, 1832. 
Eaton, Isaac and Mary Quigley, Dec. 26, 1816. 
Edgar, David and Mary Maclay, Oct. 1, 1811. 
Ege, Michael M. and Mary Blochford Ege, Marcli 10, 

1840. 
Ellis, Elijah and Amanda Cox, Sept. 11, 1821. 
Elliott, Johnston and Katharine Cox, Jan. 23, 1805. 
Elliott, Samuel and Eliza Skinner, Nov. 14, 1816. 
Elliott, Robert and Nancy Early, Sept. 22, 1825. 
Elliott, Robert and Jane Smith, April 5, 1838. 
Elliott, Robert and Mary McPherson, Oct. 3, 1848. 
Emmitt, John and Eliza Redditt, Dec. 29, 1835. 
Espy, Josiah and Mary McKeehan, May 30, 1844. 



112 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Ewing, George and Sarah Maclay, April 4, 1844. 
Ferguson, Henry and Eve Stine, June 2, 1812. 
Ferguson, William and Margaret McCoy, August 19, 

1819. 
Ferguson, John and Jean Mitchell, Dec. 13, 1821. 
Ferguson, William and Mary Morrow, April 13, 1843. 
Ferris, James and Mary Shell, Jan. 31, 1819. 
Finefrock, Michael and Sarah Attick, March 23, 1815. 
Finley, Ebenezer and Katharine Marshall, Oct. 17, 

1809. 
Finley, Dr. John and Margaret Nevin, June 8, 1831. 
Fleming, William and Rachel Moore, Jan. 20, 1824. 
Forbis, William and Mary Patterson, April 20, 1848. 
Forman John and Elizabeth McKinney, March 6, 1827. 
Fosnaught, Jacob and Mary Vanderbilt, June 6, 1826. 
Foust, George and Mary Wagner, Nov. 16, 1815. 
Foust, John and Elizabeth Miley, Jan. 16, 1840. 
Frazer, William and Susanna Bogar, Oct. 3, 1816. 
French, Andrew and Betsy Baylie, Aug. 4, 1816. 
French, David and Sally Toughead, March 27, 1834. 
Fry, John and Susan Green, Jan. 30, 1812. 
Fry, Jacob and Rachel Fleck, Aug. 7, 1828. 
Galbreath, John and Sarah Davenport.. Dec. 22, 1807. 

Gallaher, William and Martin, Dec. 17, 1828. 

Gamond, James and Bethsheba Morrow, Jan. 24, 1850. 
Gibbons, John and Hetty McDannell, Oct. 23, 1828. 
Gill, Thomas and Mary Ritchey, Dec. 25, 1823. 
Gillespie, Samuel and Elizabeth Stewai-t, May 29, 1834. 
Gilmore, James and Eleanor McKinney, March 16, 

1837. 
Giniven, John and Eliza Lusk, Sept. 25, 1845. 
Glen, Thomas and Margaret McCoUam, May 7, 1818. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 113 



Golden, John and Mary Sellars, Dec. 6, 1849. 
Gordon, John and Agnes Harper, March 2, 1809. 
Good, Peter and Jean Diller, April 22, 1817. 
Green, William and Ann Woods, Dec. 19, 1805. 
Green, William and Jane Gibb, Oct. 11, 1832. 
Green, John T. and Bethsheba MoCiine, March 12, 

1840. 
Green, James and Mary J. Kelso, Ayril 4, 1844. 
Green, James Knox and Ann Rhine, Feb. 13, 1851. 
Grier, George and Ellen McCurdy, March 11, 1830. 
Griffin, Edward and Agnes Clark, June 4, 1805. 
Gross, Jacob and Elizabeth Kitner, June 25, 1846. 
Grubb, John and Margaret Keiser, Nov. 29, 1814. 
Grubb, Joseph and Agnes Mootersbaugh, March 23, 

1815. 
Hammil, George and Molly Rippey, Aug. 6, 1812. 
Hammil, William and Dorcas Galbreath, Oct. 1. 1812. 
Hanna, William and Jane Ferguson, April 13, 1843. 
Hanna, William and Rachel Skelley, Nov. 12, 1832. 
Hanna, William and Martha Shannon, Dec. 27, 1832. 
Hancock, John and Catharine Moony, Nov. 3, 1831. 
Harrison, Gen. John and Rachel Rodgers, June 15, 

1819. 
Harry, John and Elizabeth Traxler, Dec. 14, 1820. 
Hatsfleld, George and Rebecca Raskins, Dec. 3, 1818. 
Hastings, Thomas and Rebecca Pague, Oct. 21, 1828. 
Hawthorn, James and Agnes Clark, May 30, 1811. 
Hays, John and Sarah McCall, May 7, 1805. 
Hays, James and Jean Barr, Dec. 2, 1807. 
Hays, Robert and Mary McCune, March 16, 1809. 
Hays, William and Mary Culbertson, Dec. 18, 1810. 
Hays, Robert and Marjory Henderson, May 9, 1816, 



114 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Heck, Jacob and Molly Means, Nov. 23, 1825. 
Heitzelman, Joseph and Eliza Fleck, June 8, 1848. 
Hemphill, James and Martha Strain, Sept. 4, 1828. 
Hemphill, Moses and Marjory Clark, May 25, 1830. 
Henderson, John and Margaret Strain, Jan. 3, 1815. 
Henderson, James and Bethsheba Howard, July 16, 

184(5. 

Hendricks, John and Spear, July 29, 1824. 

Herron, John and Elizabeth Leeper, May 7, 1816. 
Herron, Francis and Jean Wills, May 16, 1820. 
Highlands, William and Elizabeth Peebles, Sept. 5, 

1815. 
Highlands, John and Mary Ritchey, Feb. 4, 1834. 
Hill, Samuel and Margaret Bidleman, April 28, 1814. 
Hill, Alexander and Polly Johnston, Oct. 18, 1827. 
Hoch, Joseph and Jane Ciark, June 1, 1830. 
Holtree, John and EKza Roan, Sept. 17, 1829. 
Hoover, Jonas and Mary Lordsbaugh, May 1, 1828. 
Horner, Dr. Robert and Mrs. Mary Radabaugh, Oct. 4, 

1853. 
Humbert, David and Sarah McCalla, April 5, 1836. 
Humes, John and Nancy McCalmon, Feb. 2, 1826. 
Hunter, Alexander and Martha Summerville, March 26, 

1807. 
Hunter, Dr. William A. and Elizabeth Johnston, Feb. 

15, 1851. 
Hutton, James Hamilton and Agnes McFadden, July 

27, 1809. 
Imbody, Adam and Elizabeth Holt, Feb. 28, 1815. 
Irvin, John and Eliza Cox, April 12, 1815. 
Irvin, Joseph and Jemima Blytlie, Dec. 19, 1815. 
Irvin, James and Margaret McKee, Aug. 21, 1817. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 115 

Jacobs, Thomas and Harriett Rippey, June 23, 1814. 
Jacobs, John and Molly Stough, March 5, 1818. 

Jacoby, John and Cynthia , INIarch 7, 1848. 

Jamison, William and Nancy , Sept. 16, 1823. 

Johnston, Samuel and Mary Ann Broomfield, Jan. 18, 

1804. 
Johnston, John and C3aithia Thompson, Sept. 14, 1824. 
Johnston, James and Margaret Clark, June 19, 1827. 
Johnston, George and Sarah Clark, Oct. 23, 1828. 
Johnston, Samuel and Margaret Breckenridge, Nov. 22, 

1849. 
Johnston, Benjamin and Elizabeth Johnston, Sept. 19, 

1850. 
Jones, John and Christiana McCoy, May 25, 1809. 
Jones, John and Margaret Olden. Dec. 7, 1809. 
Kallen, William and Maiy Culbertson, July 6, 1824. 
Keale, George and Martha Railing, Nov. 1, 1849. 
Keever, James and Mary Olden, Sept. 6, 1810. 
Kell, James and Rachel Doren, Feb. 14, 1811. 
Kelso, Samuel and Katharine Stough, Feb. 8, 1810. 
Kelso, Alexander and Mary Clark, April 2, 1822. 
Kelso, William and Mary Bobbs, March 4, 1823. 
Kelso, James and Jano W. McCormick, Oct. 26, 1843. 
Kelso, James Anderson arid Elizabeth Linn, May 21, 

1844. 
Kelso, James and Mary Snody, Dec. 28, 1815. 
Keney, George and Ann Fry, Oct. 20, 1831. 
Kerr, John and Mary C. Williams, June 19, 1827. 
Kerr, William and Elizabeth Orr, Jan. 10, 1854. 
Keyner, George and Molly Shields, Dec. 10, 1822. 
Kilgore, Joseph and Rachel Sterritt, March 21, 1822. 
Kilgore, William and Eliza Duncan, March 21, 1822. 



116 THE MIDDLE SPKING 

Kilgore, Jesse and Mary Qiiigley, Dec. 5, 1837. 
Kirk, Joseph and Jean Young, Mal'ch 1, 1804. 
Kisby. John and Polly Smith, Feb. 24, 1814. 
Kitzniiller, John and Snsan Kelso, Oct. 14, 1841. 
Knox, John and Elizabeth Evsloe, Nov. 12, 1807. 
Knupp, Isaac and Ann Morrison, May 30, 1833. 
Kulp, William and Eliza Wonderlich, Dec. 13, 1829. 
Krouse, David and Peggy Dunmire, May 13, 1823. 
Laferty, Michael and Rachel Green, March 1, 1842. 
Laird, Adam and Elizabeth Traxler, June 2, 1840. 
Landis, Henry and Elizabeth Stump, Nov. 5, 1846. 
Larmon, William and Mary Boyd Smith, Mar. 12, 1817, 
Latsbaugh, John and Sarah A Campbell, Jan. 9, 1840. 
Laurine, Samuel and Anna A. Shell, April 5, 1830. 
Lee, William and Margaret A. Cressler, Dec. 3, 1839. 
Lee, John and Catharine Raum, April 30, 1846. 
Leeper, George and Elizabeth Galbreath, Sept. 28, 1820. 
Lemon, Adam and Catharine Stover, June 3, 1828. 
Lightner, William and Ann H March 6, 1850. 
Lindsy, Alexander and Elizabeth Patterson, Mar. 18, 

' 1824. 
Linn, William and Mary Galbreath, Sept. 28, 1819. 
Long, William and Catharine Hobbles, Nov. 11, 1813. 
Longhead, Francis and Phebe Cox, Oct. 24, 1826. 
Louis, James and Elizabeth Trait, (Tritt) Nov. 13, 1828. 
Love, Robert and Ann Barkley, April 1, 1819. 
Lower, Michael and Barbara Landis, Nov. 5, 1846. 
Lusk, Thomas and Elizabeth Weaver, Aug. 27, 1813. 
Lusk, William and Mary Fitzsimmons, June 16, 1818. 
Lyons, Joseph and Elizabeth Bucher, Mar. 13, 1827. 
Maclay, Francis Bnd Sarah Cox, Oct. 31, 1839. 

y, Charles and Mary Cox, May 7, 1846. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 117 

Maclay. David and Eleanor Herron, Oct. 2, 1806. 
Maclay, John and Hannah Reynolds, Apr. 13, 1809. 
Maclay, John and Margaret Hemphill, Mar. 12, 1836. 
Maclay, Dr. Charles T., and Mary Frazer, Mar. 11, 

1840. 
Magee, Elijah and Martha Deal, Oct. 4, 1831. 
Martin, Philip and Mary Hendricks, Nov, 8, 1842. 
Martin, John G., and Rebecca Bpangler, May 31, 1827. 
Mateer, William M., and Jane Johnston, Jan. 1, 1839. 
Matthews, James and Emily Early, Jan. 18, 1838. 
Matthews, George and Eliza Coffee, June 28, 1838. 
Matthews, Robert and Sarah A. Early, Mar. 14, 1844. 
Maxwell John and Rachel Ritchey, Apr. 4, 1833. 
McAnurlin, Thomas and Mary A. Comb, Mar. 7, 1822. 
McBeth, Samuel and Elmira M. Brown, Mar. 24, 1853. 
McBride, Dobson and Polly Walker, May 6, 1817. 
McBride, Joseph and Sally Fry, June 10, 1845. 
McCalla, John and Peggy Crawford. May 20, 1813. 
McCandliss. John and Priscilla Forrest, June 19, 1821. 
McClelland, William and Margaret Shannon, Dec. 24, 

1807. 
McClelland, Capt. William and Martha Sharp, Apr. 7, 

1808. 
McClure, William and Nancy Johnston, Oct. 4, 1832. 
McClure, David and Arabella Peebles, INIay 16, 1815. 
]\IcClure, Hugh and Letty Duncan, Apr. 3, 1817. 
McClure, John and Bethsheba Campbell, Dec. 31, 1818. 
McCommon, Alexander and Margaret Kennedy, March 

22, 1804. 
McConnel, William and Agnes Cummins, Feb. 19, 

1807. 
IMcCord, Andrew and Rosanna Bell, Dec. 3, 1806. 



118 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



McCreight, Alexander and Ann Culbertson, May 17, 

1821. 
McCullougli, John and Elizabeth Clark, Jan. 4, 1820. 
McCullough, Alexander and Bethslieba McCune, June 

14, 1849. 
McCullough, John and Agnes Boyd Morrow, Oct. 31, 

1839. 
McCune, Capt. John and Elizabeth Moore, May 6, 1806. 
McCune, John and Elizabeth Glen, Mar. 26, 1818. 
McCune, John and Sally Ann Duncan, Feb. 27, 1823. 
McCune, Alexander and Molly Caldwell, May 22, 1823. 
McCune, Robert and Nancy Gibb, Mar. 26, 1829. 
McCune, William and Polly Campbell, Mar. 17, 1831. 
McCune, Hugh and Nelly A. Gibb, Mar. 1, 1838. 
McCune, Samuel Elder and Mary E. Maclay, Feb. 12, 

1840. 
McCune, John and Jane Henderson, March 8, 1842. 
McCurdy, Alexander and Sarah iMcIlliare, Feb. 15, 

1831. 
McDonald, Samuel and Abby Edwards, Nov. 18, 1819. 
McElwain, John and Hannah Tliompson, March 21, 

1805. 
McFadden, Peter and Margaret Baye, May 12, 1810. 
McGee, Jolm and Polly Peebles, April 2, 1811. 
McGinley, John and Eliza Maclay, April 5, 1831. 
McGinness, Joseph and Margaret Tliompson, Sept. 17, 

1812. 
McGinness, George and Catharine Beynolds, June 16, 

1814, 
McGlaughlin, Robert and Hannah Morrow, March 26, 

1829. 
McLaughlin, David and Martha High, Oct. 6, 1842. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 119 

Mcllheny, Joseph and Jean Shannon, Aug. 22, 1822. 
Mcllpesh, Charles and Jane McFarlane, April 27, 1826. 
Mclntire, William and Sally Herron. Jan. 28, 1819. 
McKean, Alexander and Polly Keeler, June 29, 1824. 
McKinney, Abraham Smith and Margaret Keynolds, 

Oct. 27, 1827. 
McKnight, Samuel and Sarah Lowry, Nov. 24, 1808. 
McMulien, James and Ann Peebles, Oct. 12, 1813. 
McPherson, Robert and Sarah Mahon, Dec. 8, 1807. 
McPherson, Reynolds and Elizabeth Henderson, Sept. 

12, 1820. 
McPherson John Williamson and Martha Skiles, Dec. 

11, 1851. 
McSoorly, William and Mai-garet Pile, Oct. 30, 1809, 
Meekley, Charles and Jane K. Green, May 17, 1842. 
Middlecoff, Gen. David and Ann Wallace, May 4, 1841. 
Miller, James and Jean McKee, August 30, 1810. 
Miller, William and Rebecca Strain, April 11, 1815. 
Miller, Andrew and Margaret Brattan, Nov. 20, 1817. 
Miller, Christopher and Mary Smith, Dec. 9, 1823. 
INIiller, Benjamin and Martha Shope, Nov. 8, 1849. 
IMiller, Henry and Margaret A. Finkenbinder, April 22, 

1851. 
Miller Christopher and Catharine W. , Dec. 23, 

1851. 
IMitchell, William and Letty McClure, Sept. 18, 1817. 
Mitchell, William and Mary Hanna, Jan. 8, 1822. 
INIoody, James C. and Mary Rankin, Sept. 23, 1851. 
Moore, Andrew and EHzabeth Koontz, May 30, 1815. 
Mcore, Albert and Mary McCune, Feb. 10, 1848. 
Morrison, Samuel and Polly Cowan, Aug. 18, 1807. 
Morrow, William and Mary Boyd, Jan. 30, 1812. 



120 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Morrow, Wilson and Barbara Metz, May 21, 1829. 
Morrow, Col. William and Caroline Wallace, Dee. 21, 

1847. 
Neir, Francis and Margaret Early, April 12, 1821. 
Nesbit, John and Elizabeth Lawn, Aug. 8, 1805. 
Nesbit, Henry and Sally A. Heckman, Feb. 24, 1825. 
Ocker, John and Margaret Gourd, March 26, 1829. 
Orner, William and Sarah J, Wilson Speer, Sept. 27, 

1849. 
Orr, Henry and Barbara Stough, April 11, 1816. 
Orr, James and Hetty Ritchy, April 12, 1831. 
Orr, William and Agnes Quigley, Feb. 27, 1851. 
Patterson, Robert and Jean Lusk, March 13, 1806. 
Patterson, Robert and Mary Linn, Dec. 20, 1814. 
Patterson, Robert L. and Sarah Sellers, Oct. 9, 1834. 
Pague, Jacob and Sally Spear, April 29, 1824. 
Patton, William and Mary Hackett, May 11, 1843. 
Paxton, John and Elizabeth Morrison, April 19, 1810. 
Paxton, John and Nancy Shoemaker, Dec. 8, 1835. 
Peale, Samuel and Isabella Nesbit, Nov. 11, 1817. 
Peebles, Robert and Mary Rotes, Nov. 15, 1803, 
Peebles, Robert and Susan McClelland, Dec. 13, 1804. 
Peebles, Capt. Hugh and Elizabeth Peebles, Dec. 10, 

1807. 
Peebles, Robert and Keziah Herron, Marcli 14, 1809. 
Peebles, James and Hetty Culbercson, Oct. 11, 1810. 
Peebles, William and Eleanor Mickey, Dec. 8, 1818. 
Peeling, Joshua and Margaret Wilson, Jan. 5, 1824. 
Peterson, James and Nancy Devor, Nov. 6, 1845. 
Pilgrim, John and Martha A. Runshaw, April 18, 1837, 
Pockmire, Stephen and Abigail Moore, Feb. 15, 1810. 
Quigley, Joseph and Mary Sharp, June 9, 1808. 



PRE8BYTE11IAN CHURCH. 121 

Quigley, John and Eleanor McCune, Mareli 30, 1848. 
Quigley, James and Elizabeth Hemphill, Jan. 29, 1852. 
Randolph, William and Catharine Moore, Jan. 21, 1817. 
Rankin, John and Elmira Kell, June 25, 1829. 
Railing, John and Barbara A. Criel, June 1, 1852. 
Rayland, Joseph and Agnes McMamino, Nov. 14, 1833. 
Raum, Dr. William and Elizabath Moody, Jan. 25> 

1827. 
Riium, Jack and Mary Bailey, Oct. 7, 1828. 
Raum, Josiali H. and Harriet Bailey, Oct. 1, 1833. 
Reiling, Martin and Sarah A. Chamberlain, Oct. 23, 

' 1845. 
Reiling David and Margaret Null, Oct. 1, 184(3. 
Reiley, John and Margaret Scott, Aug. 31, 1815. 
Renfrew, Robert and Ann ]\icKean, May 25, 1813. 
Renick, William H. and Jane M. Burns, Jan. 27, 1842. 
Reynolds, Benjamin and Molly Cochran, June 26, 1806. 
Reynolds, Christian and Katharine Roan, Feb. 25, 1819. 
Reynolds, John and Sarah Cooper, May 14, 1829. 
Rezie Philip and Rebecca Templeton, Feb, 15, 1816. 
Riffly, Jesse and Sarah Breckenridge, June 5, 1826. 
Ritchey, David and Elizabeth Kelso, Jan. 20, 1824. 
Ritchey, Samuel and Susanna Kinsey, Oct. 16, 1832. 
Ritchey, Samuel and Betsy Ritchey, Feb. 11, 1835. 
Ripple, George and Martha Williams, Oct. 20, 1836. 
Rissle, Anthony and Katharine Bittinger, April 28, 

1836. 
Roan, Jacob and Mary Bowman, April 11, 1823. 
Roberts, Noble and Elizabeth Stout, Feb. 3, 1825. 
Robinson, Samuel and Jean Gladstone, March 29, 1814. 
Robinson, John and Rebecca Morra, March 2, 1815. 
Robinson, Robert and Nancy Brotherton, Sept. 12, 1816. 



122 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Robinson, James and Morrow, Feb. 2, 1819. 

Robinson, Adolplius and Sally Fochender, Nov. 5, 1822. 

Robinson, and Susan Clippinger, July 26, 1831. 

Robinson, James and Sarah Elder Wallace, Nov. 28. 

1850. 
Rodgors, Andrew and Elizabeth McDonald, March 10, 

1807. 
Rodgers, James and Jane Linn, May 11, 1826. 
Rodgers, Enos and Maria Coffee, Feb. 24, 1842. 
Rowan, George and Ann Slatherpeek, July 1, 1830, 
Rowland, Rev. James and Mary A. Moody, May 12, 

1841. 
Runk, John and Eliza Richardson, April 24, 1828. 
Runshaw, Joseph and Mary A. Green, Feb. 29, 1844. 
Runshaw, William Simpson and Margaret Henderson* 

Feb. 22, 1848. 
Ruth, Edward and Maria Gallaher, Dec, 26, 1833. 
Scott, Samuel and Elizabeth Johns, Dec. 30, 1819, 
Searight, George and Ann Kerr, December 22, 1818. 
Searight, Francis W. and Keziah McCune, Feb. 14, 

1850. 
Shannon, James and Jean Wilson, Nov. 7, 1816. 
Sharp, James and Martha Hanna, Aug. 20, 1805. 
Sharp, James and Margaret Quigley, Sept. 21, 1837. 
Sharp, James and Elizabeth J. Sharp, Jan. 29, 1850. 
Sharp, John McCune and Eleanor McCune, Feb, 25, 

1851. 
Sharp, Elder and Elizabeth Kelso, Oct. 7, 1852. 
Sheffler, James and Catharine A. Thompson, Sept. 2, 

1847. 
Shields, James and Isabella McKee, Apr. 8, 1806. 
Shields, David and Sarah Herron, March 19, 1812. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 123 

Shields, Robert and Betsy Duncan, Oct. 9, 1812. 
Slioaff, Jacob and Mary Wolfinspanger, June 13, 1816. 
Shoemaker, Martin and Kuhama Tinimons, Sept. 5, 

1830. 
Shoemaker, Samuel and Elizabeth Summerville, Mar 15, 

1842. 
Shoemaker, Samuel and Elizabeth Morrow, Dec. 20, 

1843. 
Shoemaker, William B., and Ellen Blythe, Sept. 4, 

1849. 
Shope, George and Elizabeth Shoemaker, June 11, 1840. 
Shope, Johi^ and Barbara A. Heberlig, Sept. 27, 1849. 
Shope, William and Catharine Heberlig, Mar. 6, 1851. 
Shryock, John and Patty Cochran, Sept. 5, 1811. 
Skeily, William and Mary Shriner, Mar. 30, 1830. 
Skinner, William and Margaret Wilson, Nov. 14, 1816. 
Slasher, George and Sarah Moore, Jan. 1, 1805. 
Small, George and Catharine Slighter, Jan. 5. 1854. 
Smith, Matthew and Jean Cam]:)bell, Aug. 25, 1812. 
Smith, John and Betsy iVlbert, May 7, 1816. 
Smith, Samuel and Ruth Duncan, June 13, 1820. 
Smith, John and Ann Calvert, June 12, 1827. 
Smith, Robert and Nancy Walker, Mar. 5, 1829. 
Smitli, George and Nancy Young, Apr. 5, 1832. 
Smith, John and Eliza J. Campbell, Nov. 14, 1839. 
Smith, Wilson and Bethsheba McClure, Sept. 29, 1832. 
Snively, David and Nancy Ann Hawthorn, May 11, 

1843. 
Snoddy, Adam and Margaret Johnston, Apr. 29, 1813. 
Snoddy, Johnston and Ann Reynolds, Jan. 6, 1824. 
Snodgrass, William and Jean Henderson, Dec. 21, 1809. 
Snodgrass, Rev. James and Margaret Moody, June 25, 



124 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

1839. 

•Bnyder, Joseph and Maria Croft, Feb. 25. 1823. 
Spear, William and Jane Calhoun, Nov. 4, 1830. 
Spear, David and Jean White, May 15, 1821. 
Spence, John and Eliza N. Green, June 2, 1836. 
Spence, Alexander and Jane Davenport, Oct. 22, 1829. 

Spencer, and Thompson, Apr. 20, 1826. 

Spencer, John and Katharine McMamino, May 25, 

1826. 
Sponsler, James and Rebecca Wheeler, Feb. 25, 1819. 
Sleen, Alexander and Rosanna Hunter, Oct. 30, 1827. 
Sterrett, Robert and Jane Sterrett, Jan. 3, 1832. 
Sterrett, David and Polly Sterrett, Mar. 23, 1815, 
Sterrett, Thomas and Jane Clark, Feb. 23, 1826. 
Stewart, John and Sophia Bidleman, Nov. 5, 1812. 
Stewart, Robert and Katharine Reddat, Apr. 2, 1818. 
Stewart, James and Mary Hays. Apr. 24, 1821. 
Stew^art, Andrew and Elizabeth Johnston, Apr. 28, 

1825. 
Stewart, Dr. William R., and Dinah McKinney, Apr. 

5, 1827. 
Stewart, James and Mary Kerr, Apr. 5, 1837. 
Stewart, Hugh and Jane M. Means, Oct. 19, 1847. 
Stewart, John and Jemima McCune, Oct. 26, 1848. 
Stockton, Robert and Nancy Galbreath, Oct. 31, 1815. 
Stough, William and Barbara Whitmier, Sept. 14, 1815. 
Stough, Jacob and Mai-garet Brewster, May 8, 1817. 
Strain, Robert and Martha Grier, Dec. 7, 1820, 
Strain, James and Jean Fleming, Dec. 29, 1825. 
Stumbaugh, George H., and Sarah Breckenridge, Sept. 

23, 1847. ' 
Stump, Abraham and Anna M. Bowers, Feb. 11, 1840. 



PEESBYTEHIAN CHURCH. 125 

Sturgeon, Samuel and Frances Eodgers, Dec. 15, 1803. 
Summerville, William and Mary McCalment, May 30, 

1811. 
Summerville, John and Nancy Robinson, Jan. 29, 1852. 
Sutherland, John and Martha Brown, Oct. 31, 1806. 
vSwonger, JoJm and Sally Boyd, Oct. 1, 1829. 
Swonger, Samuel and Harriet Sponsler, Sept. 6, 1832. 
Taylor, Samuel and Mary Sentman, Nov. 14, 1850. 
Thompson, Willam and Rebecca Ray, Oct. 11, 1811. 
Thompson, Alexander and Margaret Johnson, June 15, 

1820. 
Thompson, Robert and Margaret McMammony, Mar. 

29, 1821. 

Thompson, and Spencer, April 20, 1826. 

Thrush, Joseph and Mary June 25, 1816. 

Thrush, Jacob and Margaret Mathers, Sept. 8, 1821. 
Thrush, Jacob and Katharine Pefter, April 29, 1824. 
Thrush, Barnebas and Elizabeth Green, May 6, 1828. 
Torrens, John and Elizabeth McClure, Oct. 15, 1807. 
Trait, Samuel and Ann Eliza Clark, Nov. 3, 1829. 
Trimble, James and Sarah Wylie, March 10, 1808. 
Trump, John and Rachel Matthews, June 5, 1832. 
Turnbaugh, John and Mary Green, April 10, 1823. 

Vanderbilt, and Sally Graham, Oct. 26, 1826. 

Wagner, John and Betsy Campbell, May 30, 1816. 
Wagner, Michael and Eve Nickey, May 25, 1847. 

Walker, and Margaret McCalmon, May 16, 1811. 

Walker, William and Eliza Wiley, Oct. 4, 1827. 
Wallace, James and Jenny Green, March 10, 1808. 
Wallace, Irvin and Julia A. Duncan, Sept. 12, 1820. 
Wallace, John and Jean McCune, May 29, 1821. 
Wallace, William and Mmj Wherry, Dec. 26, 1831. 



126 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Wallace, Dr. Hamilton and Nancy Sharp, April 16, 

1840. 
Wallager, Daniel and Sally Ott, June 16, 1825. 
Ward, Isaac and Mai-y Rodgers, April 1, 1823. 
Warner, Adam and Mary Roan, June 29, 1820. 
Watson, John and Jean Lightner, August 22, 1809. 
Weaver, William and Margaret Stewart, Aug. 24, 1807. 
Weaver, John and Rosanna McCoy, June 16, 1818. 
Weekly, William K. and Elizabeth McCormick, Jan. 

9, 1851. 
Weir, George and Elizabeth Patterson, May 1, 1806. 
Welsh, Ebenezer and Mary Heap, Nov. 17, 1808. 
Welsh, WilHam and Mary Moody, April 23, 1805. 
Westhafer, Samuel and Susan Smith, April 3, 1829. 
Wheeler, Jacob and Ann Shoemaker, Nov. 19, 1825. 
Wherry, Sanmel and Margaret McCune, Feb. 9, 1832. 
White, David and Sarah Hanna, April 3, 1806. 
White, Josiah and Jean Ritchey, April 1, 1807. 
White, Charles and Elizabeth Thompson, Jan. 2, 1810. 
White, William and Ann Richards, Nov. 8, 1814. 
White, Samuel and Nancy Burns, Jan. 10, 1838. 
Whitmier, Jacob and Rachel Fochender, I^Iar. 23, 1824. 
Wickline, George and Christina Knave, Dec. 3, 1804. 
Williams, John and Margaret Patterson, Aug. 27, 1807. 
Williams, Charles and Elizabeth McClure, Aug. 28, 

1817. 
Williamson, Johnston and Margaret Grimes, June 4, 

1812. 
Wills, David and Mary Patterson, Dec. 6, 1810. 

Wills, James and Wilson, March 17, 1830. 

Willis, Joseph and Mary Patterson, Oct. 5, 1815. 
Wilson, Robert and Jean Donovan, June 1, 1809. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 127 

Wilson, Alexander and Agnes Herron, June 11, 1828. 
Wilson, James and Isabella McCoy, Nov. 6, 1828. 
Wilson, John and Ellen Pritchard, Dec. 4, 1828. 
Wingler, George and Caroline Bitner, Dec. 30, 1847. 
Wise, George and Polly Leonard, Oct, 29, 1816. 
Wise, Isaac and Mary A. Still, 1855. 
Wisler, Martin and Charlotte Goldsmith, Nov. 1, 1832. 
Witherspoon, David and Nancy A. Carothers, May 18, 

1830. 
Woods, Joseph and Agnes Crossan, May 23, 1811. 
Woods, James and Hetty McClnre March 2, 1820. 
Woodrow, Samuel and Jean French, April 23, 1807. 
Wright, John and Margaret Glen, Jan. 17, 1809. 
Wylie, John and Katharine Duncan, Sept. 8, 1808. 
Yane, Samuel and Betsy Canetis, Jan. 3, 1826. 
Yaring, Hugh and Sally Smith, April 5, 1827. 
Yost, William and Elizabeth Hale, Nov. 3, 1831. 
Young, Samuel and Elizabeth Miller, June 13, 1848. 
Young, Capt. John A. and Martha A. Cox, March 8, 

1849. 



128 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

BAPTISMS BY BEV. I. N. HAYS. 



Barr, William Alexander, son of Robert, Newburg, 
April 28, 1855. 

Barr, Leander Clark, May 18, 18(31. 

Barr, Edith M., daughter of B. L. and M., Oct. 4, 1862 

Beattie, Lilly Belle, daughter of John, May 15, 1864, 

Beattie, Clara Jane, daughter of James, Oct. 4, 1862. 

Bentz, Sarah Isabella, daughter of James, May 14, 1859. 

Bingham, John Armour, Nov. 6, 1863. 

Bingham, Henry Omsted, Nov. 6, 1863. 

Bowen, William, son of William, April 28, 1855. 

Bo wen, Isaiah, son of William, May 14, 1859. 

Breckenridge, James, Oct. 22, 1854, 

Breckenridge, Margaret, daughter of Columbus A. and 
B , Nov, 1864. 

Breckenridge, William Alexander, son of Columbus A. 
and B.. Nov. 1864. 

Cramer, William Calvin, son of Jacob, March 13, 1860. 

Cramer, Mary, daughter of Jacob, March 13, 1860. 

Cramer, David Clark, son of Jacob, March 13, 1860. 

Culbertson, Mary Belle, daughter of George and N. H., 
Nov. 1864. 

Davis, Mary Ellen, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza- 
beth, May 30, 1856. 

Davis, John Andrew, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth, 
May 30, 1856. 

Davis, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza- 
beth, May 30, 1856. 

Davis, Isaac M., son of Benjamin and Elizabeth, May 
30, 1856. 

Davis, James William, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth, 




REV. Isaac N- H/ 



PEESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 129 

May 30, 1856. 

Davis, Margaret Anna, daughter of Benjaiinii and Eliz- 
abeth, May 30, 1856. 

Davis, Carrie Rebecca, daughter of Benjamin, October, 
4, 1862. 

Davis, Emma Jane, daughter of Benjamin, 1867. 

Deihl, James McCulloch, son of Samuel, Feb. 7, 1866. 

Elliott, Denny Carson, son of John and Elizabeth, Jan. 
4, 1855. 

Elliott, Sarah A., daughter of John and Elizabeth, Jan. 
4, 1855. 

Elliott, Robert E., son of John and Elizabeth, January 
4, 1855. 

Elliott, Ruth E., daughter of John and Elizabeth, Jan- 
uary 4, 1855. 

Elliott, Elizabeth I., daugliter of John and Elizabeth, 
Jan. 4, 1855. 

Elliott, Martha Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth, 
Jan. 4, 1855. 

Elliott, John Jefferson, soil of John and Elizabeth, Jan- 
uary 4, 1855. 

Elliott, Clara Bell, daughter of R. , Sept. 22, 1860. 

Elliott, Ruth Ella, daughter of R. , Oct. 4, 1861. 

Ewing, Emma, Jan. 29, 1866. 

Fausnauft, Rebecca, Nov. 25, 1860. 

Fausnauft, L. Ellen, daughter of I. and Eliza, Oct. 4, 
1862. 

Ferree, George McClelland, son of James, May 15, 1864. 

Ferree, John Crittendon, son of James, 1867. 

Frazer, Ezemiah Alice, daughter of Wilson, Jan. 3, 
1857. 

Frazer, Clara Belle, daughter of W. W., May 14, 1859. 

Frazer, Anna Wilson, daughter of W. W., 1867. 



130 THE MIDDLE SPEING 

Frazer, Jennie Carroll, daughter of W. W., 1867. 
French, Edith Jane, daughter of Mrs. Mary, August, 

1863. 
French, Corinna Susanna, daughter of Mrs. Mary, Aug., 

1863. 
Graham, William Albert, son of William, May 14, 1859. 
Green, William, son of James. Newburg, Nov., 1859. 
Hays, Eleanor, King, daughter of Rev. I. N., May 15, 

1864. 
Henderson, William H., son of James and Helen, Apr. 

25, 1858. 
Henderson, Anna Belle, May 18, 1861. 
Henderson, Thomas Newton, May 18, 1861. 
Henderson, David Jacob, son of J. and H„ Oct. 4, 1862. 
Henderson, Rosella, daughter of James, 1867. 
Heagy, Mary Elizabeth, Feb. 7, 1866. 
Hefflefinger, Frank Hays, son of D., 1867. 
Huston, Emma B., adult, Nov., 1864. 
Johnston, John Wilson, son of Samuel and Margaret, 

Oct. 22, 1854. 
Johnston, Rebecca Jane, daughter of Samuel and Mar- 
garet, June, 1855. 
Johnston, William Hunter, son of Benjamin, Sept. 22, 

1860. 
Johnston, Robert Clark, son of Clark, 1867. 
Kelso, James Patterson, May 18, 1861. 
Kennedy, John McClelland, son of Dr. M., Sept. 26, 

1863. 
Kennedy, Hetty, Mary, Aug. 26, 1867. 
Kyner, John Johnston, son of John, Orrstown, March 

2, 1860. 
Kyner, Thomas Kennedy, Aug. 26, 1867. 
Landis, Elizabeth, adult, March 2, 1860. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 131 

Leslier, David Irwin, son of David, May 1, 1865. 
Lindsay,', Margaret Elmira, daughter of Thos. and Mar- 
garet, Sept. 5, 1857. 
Lindsay, Thos. Ellsworth, sou of Thos. and Margaret, 

Nov. 1864. 
Long, A. L, Nov. 25, 1860. 
Long, Joseph McKinuey, son of Philip and Edessa, 

Jan., 1865. 
Long, David Shoemaker, son of Philip and Edessa, Jan., 

1865. 
Long, Abraham Smith, sou of Philip and Edessa, Jan., 

1865. 
Lusk, Mina Isabel, May 18, 1861. 
Means, Joseph Chalmers, son of McCord, Sept. 6, 1863. 
McClain, James Breckenridge, June, 1857. 
McCoy, Newton Hays, son of Patrick Grier, Sept. 5, 

1857. 
McCoy, Grizelda Jane, daughter of Patrick Grier, Sept. 

" 26, 1863. 
McCoy, William Eugene, Feb. 7, 1866. 
McCune, Keziah Belle, daughter of John, Sept. 5, 1857. 
McCulloch, Mrs. Ann, Jan. 29, 1866. 
McCuUoch, Mary Martha, daughter of David and Ann, 

Feb. 7, 1866. 
McCulloch, David Calvin, sou of David and Ann, Feb. 

7, 1866. 
McCulloch, Alice Adessa, daughter of David and Ann, 

Feb. 7, 1866. 
McCulloch, Samuel Deilil, son of David and Ann, Feb. 

7, 1866. 
McKinuey, Hadessa L, Feb. 7, 1866. 
McElhenny, James E., son of James, Oct. 4, 1862. 



132 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Morrow, William Clark, son of William, May 14, 1859. 
Morrow, Elizabeth, Dec, 1857. 
Morrow, Clarence Elmer, Feb. 7, 1866. 
Morrison, David Campbell, Sept. 13, 1863. 
Morrison, Nancy Ellen, Sept. 13. 1863. 
Morrison, Jacob Henry, Sept. 13, 1863. 
Morrison, George Eldorado, Sept. 13, 1863. 
McPherson, Anna Mary, daughter of John, May 14, 

1859. 
McPherson, A. Mary, daughter of Daniel, May 14, 1859. 
McPherson, Elizabeth,daugliter of Daniel, May 14, 1859. 
^McPherson, James Reynolds, son of Daniel, May 14, 

1859. 
McPherson, Henry Clay, son of Daniel, Sept. 22, 1860. 
McPherson, Theodore H. Nevin, son of Daniel, Oct. 4. 

1862. 
Orr, John Wilson, son of John and Mary, Oct. 22, 1854. 
Orr, I. Hays, son of William and Agnes, June, 1855. 
Orr, William Edgar, son of William and Agnes, Mar. 2, 

1860. 
Peebles, William Alexander, son of Benjamin, Sept. 5, 

1857. 
Peebles, Martha Ellen, daughter of Benjamin, Newburg, 

Nov., 1859. 
Peebles, Hugh Barr, son of Benjamin, Oct. 4, 1862. 
Quigley, Joseph Sharp, son of James and Elizabeth, 

Jan. 4, 1855. 
Quigley, daughter of Robert and Ellen, April 28, 

1855. 
Quigley, Liberty McCrea, daughter of Robert and El- 
len, Sept. 5, 1857. 
Quigley, Thomas McKinney, son of David and Jane, 

Sept. 5, 1857. 



PRfiSBYTERIAN CHURCH. 133 

Quiglev, Robert Clark, son of David and Jane, May 14, 

■^1859. 
■Quigley, Maggie Belle, daughter of John, Mar. 2, 1860. 
Qniglev, Carrie Hempliill, daughter of Janie,s and Eliz- 

■'abeth, Nov. 25, 1860. 
Qnigley, Alice Rodgers, dauohter of Robert and Ellen, 

^Oct. 4, 1862. 
Quigley, Maggie Ellen, daughter of James and Eliza- 
beth, Sept. 26, 1863. 
Quigley, Mary, daughter of David and Jane, May 15, 

1864. 
Renshaw, Jacob Cover, son of David and Catharine, 

Sept., 1855. 
Renshaw, David, son of David, May 14, 1859. 
Renshaw, Mary Elizabeth, May 18, 1861. 
Sanders, Rhoda, daughter of Franklin, May 14, 1859. 
Sanders, William Wilson, Sept. 22, 1860. 
Sharp, Charles Shoemaker, son of William, Jan., 1865. 
Shoemaker, Jenetta Isadore, daughter of Dr. W., Aug. 

13, 1861. 
Shoemaker, David, Aug. 13, 1861. 
Shoemaker, Maria Elizabeth, Aug. 13, 1861. 
Shoemaker, Martha Gertrude, daughter of David, Oct. 

4, 1862. 
Shoemaker, Emma Grace, daughter of Dr. W., Oct. 4, 

1862. 
Shoemaker, Frank Calvin, son of Dr. W., May 1, 1865. 
Shoemaker, Calvin Heagy, son of D. F., Jan., 1865. 
Shulenberger, Winfield Scott, son of Benjamin, Jan., 

1865. 
Shulenberger, John Hays, son of Benjamin, Jan., 1865. 
Skiles, James Williamson, son of Henderson, Jan. 4, 

1855. 
Skiles, Estella Mary, daughter of Henderson, Oct. 4, 



134 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

1862. 
Smith, W. Loyd, Jan. 4, 1855. 
Smith, Ann Eliza, adult, Sept. 5, 1857. 
Smith, Virginia E., daughter of W. L., Mar. 2, 1860. 
Smith, William G. Stewart, son of W., 1867. 
Smith, Frederick L., son of R. B., Sept. 22, 1860. 
Snyder, William Thompson, son of Peter, Sept, 5, 1857. 
Snyder, Samuel Ritehey, son of Peter, Sept. 5, 1857. 
Snyder, Sarah Rebecca, daug^hter of Peter, Sept. 5, 1857. 
Snyder, Isaac Hays Linn, son of Peter, Sept. 5, 1857. 
Stewart, Charles B., son of John, Mar, 1860. 
Stewart, Franklin O., son of John, Mar. 2, 1860. 
Stewart, Emma I., daughter of John, Mar. 2, 1860, 
Stewart, Francis E., son of John, Mar. 2, 1860. 
Summerville, John R., son of John and Agnes, Sept., 

1855, 
Swigert, Jesse Clyde, son of George W., Nov. 25, 1860. 
Swigert, Jane Ellen, daughter of George W.. May 15, 

1864. 
Swigert, Daniel Willis, son of George W., 1867. 
Thompson, Frank, son of Dr. Agnew, 1867. 
Walker, Edwin, adult, Sept. 22,^860. 
Walker, Mrs. Sarah W., May 18, 1861. 
Walker, Franklin, adult, Aug., 1861. 
Wherry, William R., son of Samuel and Margaret, Aug. 

13, 1854. 
Wherry, Barnard S., son of Samuel and Margaret, May 

*1, 1865. 
White, John Thompson, son of Chaales M., Oct. 4, 

1862. 
White, Hannah Mary, Feb. 7, 1866. 
Young, Mary Catharine, Oct. 4, 1862. 
Young, Sarah Alice, daughter of Henry, Oct. 4, 1862. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 135 

MARRIAGES BY REV. I. N. HAYS. 



Agnew, Dr. Henry and Virginia E. Smith, Dec. 24, 

1867. 
Armstrong, Geo. and Mary Beattie, Sept, 26, 1860. 
Atlierton, S. Y. and Sadie Stoufter, Aug. 1, 1860. 
Bell, Robert Jr., and Abigal King, 1853. 
Beatty, James and Rebecca Johnston, Nov, 12, 1857. 
Beatty, John and Ellen S. Wallace, Jan. 26, 1860. 
Black, David M. and Ann McNeal, 1857. 
Breckenridge, Grier and Lucinda Beatty, Dec. 18, 1856. 
Breckenridge, Columbus A. and R. Stumbaugh, March 

29, 1853. 
Brickel, John G. and Martha Donaldson, Aug. 5, 1852. 
Bowen, Joseph and Margaret Patterson, Jan. 23, 1862. 
Cauffman, A. D. and Jenette Smith, Feb. 13, 1866. 
Couver, Philip and Mary Boyd, May 22, 1862. 
Decker, Henry and Margaret Little, Oct. 15, 1851. 
Deihl, Samuel and Margaret McCullough, Sept. 12, 

1854. 
Deihl, W. C. and Mary Bruss, Feb. 3, 1863. 
Deihl, Enoch and Margaret Barr, Oct. 30, 1866. 
Elliott, John C. and Mary Strickler, June 8, 1859. 
Etter, Joseph and Mary Bowen, Feb. 18, 1858. 
Ferguson, John and Elizabeth McCormick, Jan. 23, 

18e55. 

Fogle, Samuel and Sarah Henry, Feb. 19, 1863. 
Forman, Christian and Margaret Hoch, July 1, 1856. 
Fosnot, John C. and Elizabetli Ferguson, Oct. 23, 1855. 
Fry, Thomas and Kate Young, Feb. 27, 1868. 
Fulton, Robert and Minnie McCune, Nov. 28, 1863. 
Gallower, James and Mary Kettern, July 20, 1859. 
Garman, David and Mary Davis, Nov. 6, 1862. 



136 THE MIDDLE SPRmO 

Graham, James and Angaline Gross, Aug. 25, 1859. 
Gross, Andrew and N. A, Gochnauer, Jan. 30, 1868. 
Hays, Rev. George P. and Ellen Wherry, Apr. 2, 18. jO, 
Hemphill, R. Clark and Maggie Brown, Feb. 13, 1868. 
Herron, Samuel T>. and Mary Pomeroy, Aug. Ig, 1860, 
Hoch, Peter and Margaret Foulk, Jan. 5, 1865. 
Hudson, George T. and Mary Neely, May 13, 1851. 
Johnston, Clark and Martha Orr, Feb. 3, 1859. 
Kennedy, Samuel and Elizabeth, Mar. 18, 1856. 
Kennedy, Dr. Max and Martha I. Orr, Dec. 13, 1859. 
Keiffer, Henry C. and Ruth Harlan, Feb. 6, 1862. 
King, Hugh and Mary Galbreath, Oct. 28, 1852. 
Kyner, John and Sarah Johnston, Sept. 2, 1856. 
Kyner, Charles F. and I. C. Fickes, Jan. 1, 1868. 
Kohr, John and Elizabeth Shoemaker, 1857. 
Lewis, Jacob T. and Sarah I. McGlen, Mar. 13, 1860. 
Lindsay, Thomas and Margaret Morrow, June 19, 

1866. 
Long, David K. and Margaret Deliaven, Dec. 24, 1857. 
Long, Philip and Hadessa McKinney, Dec. 23, 1856. 
Martin, George C. and Mary A. Smith, June 5, 1861. 
Means, W. D. and Maranda Smith, Dec. 15, 1863. 
McClay, James H. and Anna Fickes, Sept. 19, 1866. 
McCoy, Patrick and Margaret Kelly, Jan. 8, 1856. 
McCoy, William and Lida Thompson, April 1, 1859. 
McCullough, James and Ann Deihl, Sept. 12, 1854. 

McCuUough, and M. Hemphill, 1858. 

McElhenny, Robert and Sarah Monfort, Oct. 16, 1850. 

:MeElhenny, Robert and Laughlin, May 27, 1866. 

McKinney, Erastus and Mary A., Nov. 26, 1857. 

McKnight, John and Mary Flood, March 16, 1858. 
McKnight, James and Margaret Thrush, Oct. 19, 1858. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 137 

Mitchell, Samuel H. and Margaret Wingert, Jan. 18, 

1866. 
Moore, Dr. C. M. H., and Margaret S. Jan. 3, 1855. 
Morrow, Kichard W., and Rosanna Hudson, Dec. 25, 

1855. 
Morrow, W. F., and Lucinda Graham, Apr. 30, 1862. 
Morrow, John K. and Laura Winters, Feb. 25, 1868. 
Mountz, Jacob and L. Laughlin, Oct. 2, 1866. 
Mowry, Samuel and Sarah Heberlig, Oct. 18, 1855. 
Neely, Samuel F. and Margaret Monfort, June 8, 1852. 
Neely, Jonathan W. and Margaret Weaver, Feb. 15, 

1853. 
Patterson, James L. and Sarah A. Linn, Apr. 20, 1854. 
Peebles, Benjamin and Martha Barr, Sept. 9, 1856. 
Peebles, Robert and S. E. Barr, Dec. 13, 1859. 
Peebles, James and Mary Ferguson, Feb. 21, 1860. 
Pilgrim, William R. and Alberta Kitzmiller, Feb. 6, 

1868. 
Randolph, Alexander and ]\Iary E. Sharp, Dec. 25, 

1861. 
Reeder, Thomas and Mary Chamberlain, May 31, 1866. 
Reed, Isaac and Mary Walker, Sept. 22, 1859. 
Renshaw, William s! and Eliza Hoch, July 26, 1859. 
Renshaw, James and Adelia Summerville, Sept. 7, 1865. 
Reside, David and Martha Means, Jan. 27, 1859. 
Rupp, George and Caroline Hock (?) Dec. 25, 1859. 
Russell, Jolm D. and Anna Renshaw, Dec. 6, 1867. 
Shoemaker, Adam and Henrietta Sentiman, June 1865. 

Shoeman, Henry, and Kerr, Jan. 15, 1866. 

Showalter, Isaac and Susan Haldeman, Dec. 30, 1852. 
Shull, David and Anna Coover, Feb. 15, 1866. 
Skinner, Pliilip S. and Emma Sentiman, Sept. 26, 1865. 



138 ' THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Skinner, Stephen and Molly McMullen, Sept. 1868. 

S Samuel E. and Julia Pomeroy, 1857. 

Smith, W. B. and Elizabeth Means, Oct. 26, 1857. 
Smith, David R. and Rosanna Macarron, Jan. 15, 1863. 
Stair, Jacob A. and Elizabeth Morrow, Sept. 7, 1858. 
Stoch, (?) McGiniey and Elizabeth Patterson, June 10, 

1862. 
Stump, David and Rebecca Chamberlain, Feb. 27, 1866. 
Swigert, George W. and Esther Barr, Nov. 16, 1858. 
Thompson, Dr. and Rosetta Dec. 1864. 
Wagner, David and Mary Mills, Dec. 26, 1865. 
Weekly, James B. and Martha Bell, Feb. 1853. 
White, Charles M. and Sarah A. Speer, Jan. 3, 1856. 
Whistler, Solomon and Rebecca Coover, Sept. 1, 1859. 
Williams, Rev. David and Mrs. Caroline Williams, 

Sept. 22, 1859. 
Wilson, W. H. and M. E. Orr, Nov. 26, 1866. 
Woodburn, Sharp and Isabella Sterrett, Dec, 16, 1856. 




Rev D. K. Richardson 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 139 

BAPTISMS BY REV. D. K. RICHARDSON. 



Barr, Lizzie Jane, daugliter of Robert, Nov. 5, 1870. 

Black, Josephine E. adult, Jan. 29, 1870. 

Coover, Jennie adult, April 29, 1871. 

Coover, Kate adult, April 29, 1871. 

Deihl, Enoch adult, June 25, 1870. 

Deihl, Minnie Elizabeth, daughter of Enoch, Nov. 25, 
1871. 

Frazer, John Thompson, son of Wilson W. and Mary, 
Jan. 15, 1870. 

Hays, George Wilson, son of James, May 15, 1869. 

Hays, Frank Newton, son of James, Apr. 29, 1871. 

Heagy, Robert McCune, son of George and Anna, 
April 29, 1871. 

Hemphill, Robert Bruce, son of Robert and Margaret, 
Nov. 18, 1869. 

Henry, Sarah B. Jan. 29, 1870. 

Houston, Bebekah E. Sept. 17, 1870. 

Houston, Mary J. April 29, 1871. 

Houston, Dalbert W. Apr. 29, 1871. 

Johnston, Elizabeth daui^hter of Benjamin and Marga- 
ret, May 15, 1869. 

Johnston, George son of Clark and Martha, May 15, 
1869. 

Johnston, Charles McLain son of Benjamin and Mar- 
garet, May 23, 1874. 

Kennedy, Margaret Enmia, daughter of Dr. Max and 
Martha, Sept. 16, 1871. 

Kennedy, Mary, daughter of Joseph and Kate, Sept. 16, 
1871. 

Kennedy, Ellen, daughter of Joseph and Kate, Sept. 
16, 1871. 



140 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Kyner, Francis, sou of Charles and Jennie, May 15, 

1869. 
Linn, John Prouclfit, son of William and Elizabeth, 

1864. 
Linn, William Bertram, son of William and Elizabeth, 

1868. 
Linn, James Patterson, son of William and Elizabeth, 

May 7, 1870. 
Mateer, Nannie, Apr. 29, 1871. 
McClay, Kalph Fickes, son of James and Anna, May 

15, 1869. 
McClay, Margaret Hemphill, daughter of James and 

Anna, May 7, 1870. 
INlcClay, Elizabeth Damarel, daui;hter of James and 

Anna, Nov. 25, 1871. 
McEllhenny, Alto Larelda, Nov. 13, 1869. 
ISIcCoy, Annie Ellen, daughter of Patrick and Marga- 

garet, Apr. 29, 1871. 
McCullough, William Elliott, son of James and Anna, 

May 7, 1870. 
McCormick, George King, Nov. 5, 1870. 
McCormick, James Lincoln, son of James and Geor- 
gia na, Nov. 5, 1870. 
McCune, Rachel Theressa, adult, Nov. 25, 1871. 
McKinnev, Abner Smith, son of Erastus, Nov. lo, 

1869. 
McKinnev, Margaret Reynolds, daughter of Erastus 

and Mary^Nov. 30, 1871. 
Morrison, Jonas 8. son of Jonas and Barah, Sept. 16, 

1871. 
Orr, Martha, May 6, 1870. 
Richardson, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of D. K. and S. 

L. Nov. 25, 1871. 
Sharp, James Agnew, son of Wm. C. and Martha, 

Sept. 1869. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 141 

Sharp, Marv Elleo, dauajhter of Wm. and Hattie, Nov. 

5, 1870. 
Skinner, Laura Belle, daughter of James and Martha, 

June 25, 1870. 
Smith, Joseph Means, son of Wm. L. and Elizabeth, 

May 7, 1870. 
Smith, Thomas Sharp, son of Wm. and Elizabeth, 

June 2o, 1870. 
Smith, Elizabeth, adult, Nov. 5, 1870. 
Smith, Maria, adult, April 29, 1871. 
Smith, Agnes, adult, April 29, 1871. 
Smith, Sadie Elizabeth, daughter of David and Rose, 

April 29, 1871. 
Smith, Florence Amelia, daughter of David and Rose, 

April 29, 1871, 
Smith, Mary Martha, daughter of David and Rose, 

April 29, 1871. 
Smith, Horace Aimer, son of David and Rose, April 

29, 1871. 
Smith, Esther A. daughter of David and Rose, April 

29, 1871. 
Smith, George Lewis, son of William and Elizabeth, 

Nov.' 25, 1871. 
Wherry, Alice IMay, daughter of Samuel and Esther, 

Nov. 13, 1869. 



MARRIAGES BY REV. D. K. RICHARDSON. 



Elliott, Theodore B. and Josephine E. Black, Dec. 21, 

1871. 
Hale, John W. and Mary E. Ramsey, Nov. 9, 1871. 
McCulloch, J. H. and Mrs. Mary Mateer, Dec. 5, 1871. 
Orr, John G. and Martha M. Hays, Dec. 12, 1871. 
Rhodes, Samuel C. and Maggie Strain McCune, Dec. 

28, 1871. 



142 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

BAPTISMS BY REV. S. S. WYLIE. 



Bard, Margaret E. adult, Feb. 13, 1876. 

Bard, Lizzie Belle, adult, Feb. 13, 1876. 

Bard, child of William and Margaret, Jan. 30, 1892. 

Bard, William Roy, son of William and Maggie, May 

1894. 
Bard, Guy Johnston, 8on of William and Maggie, May 

1894. 
Bard, Robert Orr, son of William and Maggie, Aug. 

25, 1895. 
Bard, Margaret Breckenridge, daughter of William and 

Maggie, Aug. 25, 1895, 
Barnhart, Franklin P. adult, Feb. 27, 1876. 
Barnhart, David B. adult, Feb. 27, 1876. 
Beam, Florence Catharine, daughter of Emma, April 

1893. 
Beam, David Henry, son of Emma, April 1893. 
Beam, Cora May, daughter of Emma, April 1893. 
Beam, Emma Ethel, daughter of Emma, April 1893. 
Beattie, Rutherford, son of Samuel and Mary, jNIay 14, 

1877. 
Beattie, child of Samuel and Mary, Sept. 6, 1879. 
Beattie, Hugh Allen, son of Samuel and Mary, jMay 

14, 1880, 
Beattie, Smith Fulton, son of Edgar and Mary, Feb, 

28, 1884. 
Blair, Mrs. Nannie E. adult, Feb. 20, 1876. 
Bingham, Edna McPherson, daughter of Henry and 

Lucy, Aug. 4, 1895. 
Burk, Cora May, adult. May 18, 1890. 
Burk, Grace, Nov. 28, 1891. 




Rev. Samuel S. Wylie. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 143 



Burk. Margaret Grace, adult, Nov. 1890. 

Burk, Margaret Ann, adult, Nov. 11, 1894. 

Burk, Edith, adult, Jan. 26, 1896. 

Burk, Myrtle Belle, adult, Nov. 14, 1897. 

Burk, Ailie Jane, daughter of William and Annie, 

June 9, 1895. 
Burk, Anna Zeigler, daugiiter of William and Annie, 

June 9, 1895. 
Byers, Dora adult, Nov. 14, 1875. 
Byers, Mrs. Rachel Joanna, Feb. 27, 1876. 
Carbaugh, Margaret Ella adult, Oct. 29, 1876. 
Campbell, child of James and Margaret, Sept. 1, 1894. 
Chamberlain, Jesse A. adult, Feb. 27, 1876. 
Clymans, Helen Bachel, daughter of J. H, June 1896. 
Clugstone, Mary Agnes, May 20, 1888. 
Cope, Mary JNlarshall, daughter of George and Keziah 

May 19, 1894. 
Crauf, Flora Ann, daughter of William and Maggie, 

May 19, 1883. 
Crauf, John Harvey, son of William and Maggie, May 

19, 1883. 
Crauf, William, adult, Jan. 24. 1886. 
Creamer, Agnew, son of Calvin and Laura, Oct. 28, 

1876. 
Creamer, Herbert, son of Calvert and Laura, May 13, 

1882. 
Cressier, Robert J. adult, Feb. 27, 1876. 
Croft, Mrs. Anna Margaret, Feb. 10, 1883. 
Davis, James Montague, son of John and Amanda, 

Oct. 5, 1884. 
Davis, Robert Wylie, son of John and Amanda, Jan, 

25, 1887. 



144 THE MIDDLE SFRING 

Deardorff, Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of William and 

Minnie, Sept. 16, 1882. 
Deardorif, William, son of William and Minnie, Nov, 

23, 1884. 
Deihl, Charles, son of Enoch and Margaret, Oct. 28, 

1876. 
Deihl, Anna Belle, daughter of Enoch and Margaret, 

May 17, 1879, 
Deihl, Margaret Ellen, daughter of Enoch and ]Marga- 

ret. May 19, 1883. 
Deihl, Lucy Jane, daughter of Enoch and Elizabeth, 

May 17, 1884. 
Deihl, Clara Magdalene, adult Jan. 22, 1888, 
Deihl, Enoch James, son of Enoch and Elizabeth, May 

14. 1887. 

Eckenrode, Ella May, daughter of Sarah, Feb. 3, 1877. 
Eckenrode, Samuel David, son of W. and Sarali, Jan. 

15, 1882. 

Eckenrode, Ada Blanche, daughter of W. and Sarah, 

Jan. 15, 1882. 
Fegan, William Wylie, son of Samuel and Mary, Nov. 

14, 1885. 
Fickes, Josiah, son of David and Carrie, 1878. 
Foglesonger, Sarah Elizabeth, adult Feb, 20, 1876. 
Foglesonger, Mary Gertrude, adult Feb. 20, 187C>. 
Foglesonger, Harry, adult May 16, 1897. 
Foust, William Clark, adult Feb, 27, 1876. 
Franklin, Jonathon, adult May 20, 1883. 
Franklin, INIrs. Sarah, May 20, 1883. 
Franklin, Harry Adam, adult, Nov. 20, 1887. 
Franklin, Benjamin, adult May 20, 1888. 
Freet, Noi-a Ellen, adult May 20, 1883. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 145 

Freet, Thomns Adolphus. adult May 22, 1886. 

Freet, Anna Zipporah, daughter of Jacob and Catharine, 

June 29, 1890. 
Freet, Hattie Beatrice, daughter of Jacob and Catharine 

June 29, 1890. 
Freet, John Irwin, son of Jacob and Catharine, June 

29, 1890. 
Freet, Samuel Wylie, son of Jacob and Catharine, 

June 29, 1890. 
Frick, Minnie, adult. May 16, 1897. 
Gillan, Ira Fetter, son of William and Martha, Sept. 

16, 1882. 

Gracey, William Sharp, son of Sharp and Maggie, 

Dec. 2:j, 1888. 
Greenland, Abiah, adult May 24, 1885. 
Goodyear, Nancy Florence, daughter of John and 

" Mary, May 14, 1877. 
Goodyear, Laura W. daughter of John and Mary, May 

17, 1879. 

Goodyear, James Marshall, son of John and Mary, 

Nov. 4, 1882. 
Gordon, Donal Smith, son of Rev. J. S, and M. B. at 

Lower Path Valley, June 1, 1884. 
Halter, Mrs. Fianna, adult Oct. 29, 1876. 
Hamilton, Laura Almetta, daughter of James and 

Sarah, May 17, 1884. 
Harvey, Joseph, Sept. 18, 1877. 
Harvey, Mrs. Mary Jane, Feb. 10, 1883. 
Harvey, Emma Frances, adult Feb. 10, 1883. 
Harvey, Ada, adult Feb. 10, 1883. 
Haverstein, Edgar Frederick, son of John and Sarah, 

March 13, 1879. 



146 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Haverstein, John Jacob, son of John and Sarah, Mar, 
13, 1879. 

Haverstein, Wylie, son of John and Adeline, Oct, 
1883. 

Haverstein, Margaret Ann, danghter of John and Ade- 
line, Nov. 19, 1881. 

Hays, Mary Kerr, daughter of Edward and Margaret, 
Feb. 9, 1880. 

Heagy, George Clark, son of George and Annie, June 
3, 1875. 

Heagy, Annie, daughter of George and Annie, May 
1878. 

Heagy, Jemima Searight. daughter of George and An- 
nie, Jan. 11, 1873. 

Hefflebower, Jane Mary, adult May 18, 1890. 

Hefflebower, Harry Nelson, adult Nov. 14, 1897. 

Hefilefinger, Ellis Edwin, son of David and Elizabetli, 
Oct. 31, 1874. 

Hemphill, William Jack, son of Robert and Margaret, 
Jan, 11, 1873. 

Hemphill, Bessie Fullerton, tlaughter of Robert and 
Margaret, May 23, 1874. 

Hemphill, child of Robert and jNIargaret, Nov. lo, 
1875. 

Hemphill, Margery Helen, daughter of Robert and 
Margaret, May 17. 1879. 

Hemphill, Carrie Belle, daugliter of Robert and Mar- 
garet, May 14, 1880. 

Hemphill, Charles Verner, son of Robert and Mar- 
garet, May 21, 1881. 

Hervy, Laura Jane, adult Feb. 27, 187(3. 

Hervy, Sarah Catharine, adult Feb. 27, 1876. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 147 

Hock, Barbara Catharine, adult May 25, 1888. 

Huston, Joseph Means, son of Agnes and Dalbert, 
June 21, 1874. 

Irwin, Andrew S. adult Feb. 27, 1876. 

Irwin, Walter H. adult Feb. 27, 1876, 

Johnston, Charles McLain, son of Benjamin and Eliza- 
beth, May 23, 1874. 

Johnston, Robert Fulton, son of Benjamin and Eliza- 
beth, May 23, 1874. 

Johnston, Benjamin Arthur, son of Benjamin and 
Elizabeth, Oct. 31, 1874. 

Johns, Flora Catharine, adult June 18, 1891. 

Keefer, Grace Parker, daughter of William and Bettie. 

Kyner, Edgar Orr, son of John and Sarah, Sept. 12, 
1874. 

Kyner, Eleanor Virginia, daugliter of John and Sarah, 
Sept. 12, 1874. 

Kyner, Charles Alfred, son of Charles and Clara, Nov. 
15, 1875. 

Kyner, Clara May, daughter of Charles and Clara, Oct. 

28, 1879. 

Kyner, John Wylie, son of Charles and Clara, Miiy 17, 

1876. 
Kirkpatrick, child of Amos and Mary, Sept. 12. 1885. 
Kissinger. John, adult, March, 1886. 
Kuhn, Annie Lydia, adult, Nov. 11, 1894. 
Laird, Mrs. Agnes, June 3, 1881. 

Linn, Robert F., son of W. and Elizabeth, Nov. 2, 1873. 
Linn, Edmond Lyle, son of W. and Elizabeth, May 22, 

1875. 
Linn, James McCarrell, son of James and Jane, Nov. 

29, 1879. 



148 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Linn, William Arthur Galbreath, son of James and 

Jane, Sept. 16, 1882. 
Linn, Floyd Earl, son of James and Jane, Nov. 9. 

1883. 
Linn, Mary, daughter of Mrs. Jane, May 14, 1887. 
Lindsay, John Bruce McCune, son of John and Jennie, 

Sept. 16, 1882. 
Lindsay, William Clarence, son of John and Jenniej 

Sept. 16, 1882. 
Lindsay, Laura Bell May, daughter of John and Jennie, 

Sept. 16, 1882, 
Lindsay, Walter Irwin, son of William and Anna, Nov. 

1, 1884. 
Lindsay, Veda Pearl, daughter of William and Anna, 

'May 11, 1886. 
Lindsay, Rosanna, daughter of AVilliam and Anna, Nov. 

28, 1891. 
Lindsay, Edna Frances, daughter of William and Anna,' 

May 17, 1890. 
Lindsay, child of William, May, 1894. 
Lindsay, child of William, 1896. 
Love, Helen Elizabeth, daughter of Ed. and Cora, May 

18, 1895, 
Love, Ebert William, son of Ed. and Cora, Nov. 13, 

1897. 
Long, Mrs,, February 6, 1898. 
Lutz, Sarah Blanche, adult, Nov. 14, 1897. 
Mateer, Margaret Ellen, adult, Feb. 27, 1876. 
Mateer, Robert, adult, Nov. 5, 1882. 
McClay, Jane Ellen, daughter of James and Annie, 

May 3, 1873. 
McClay, Clara, daughter of James and Annie, Oct. 31, 

1874. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 149 

McClay, John, son of James and Annie, Oct. 28, 1876. 
McClay, Mary Ann, daugbter of James and Annie, Nov. 

29, 1879. 
McClay, David J., son of James and Annie, Nov. 4, 

1882. 
McClay, William Francis, son of James and Annie, 

^Nov. 14, 1885. 
McClay, James Hemphill, son of James and Annie, 

Nov. 19, 1887. 
McCormick, Florence Anna, daughter of James and 

Annie, June 16, 1879. 
McCuUoch, James Huston, son of Jefferson and Martha, 

May 14, 1880. 
McCulloch, Carrie Florence, daughter of Jefferson and 

Martha, Nov. 19, 1881. 
INIcCulloch, Sarah Helen, daughter of Chalmers and 

Mary, Nov. 9, 1883. 
JMcCullocli, Martha Florence, daughter of Stewart and 

Alice, May 18, 1895. 
McCullocli, child of Stewart and Alice, Nov. 18, 1897. 
]\IcCune, Mary Belle, daughter of Henderson and Mary 

Jane, May 23, 1885. 
McCune, Elizabeth Hemphill, daughter of William and 

Magge, May 18, 1895. 
McCune, Winifred Ruth, daugbter of William and Mag- 
gie, Nov. 10, 1898. 
McCune, Eva Sharpe, daughter of Henderson and Mary 

Jane, May 17, 1890. 
McCune, William Edward, adult. May 18, 1890. 
McCune, William Nevin, son of Henderson and Mary 

Jane, Nov. 10, 1894. 
McEllieny, John Irwin iGregg, son of Robert and Wil- 

iamia, Jan, 24, 1874. 



150 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

McElheny, Zora Luella, daughter of Robert land Wil- 

iamia, Nov. 15, 1875. 
McElheny, William Wylie, son of Robert and Wil- 

iamia, Feb. 3, 1877. 
McKinney, Annie Grier, daughter of Erastus and Mary, 

May 23, 1874. 
McNeal, Anna Mary, daughter of William and Alice, 

Nov. 9, 1889. 
Means, William Smith, son of W. and M., May 3, 1873. 
Means, Mary Catharine, daughter of Joseph and Nettie, 

May'l7, 1890. 
Means, Chalmers Peebles, son of Joseph and Jemima, 

May 18, 1895. 
Means, James Quigley, son of William and Jennie, Nov. 

9, 1895. 
Means, Lillian M., daughter of William and Jennie, 

Nov. 10, 1898. 
Miller, Harry B., adult, Jan. 24, 1886. 
Miller, Anna Mary, adult, Jan. 24, 1886. 
Montgomery, Nevin, Shade Gap, June 15, 1884. 
Morrow, Mrs. Rebecca, May 25, 1874. 
Morrow, Bruce, son of Boyd and Nannie, May, 1878. 
Morrow, Walter Mateer, son of Boyd and Nannie, May 

14, 1880. 
Morrow, Mabel Clark, daughter of Boyd and Nannie, 

Nov. 4, 1882. 
Morrow, William Wallace, son of Boyd and Nannie, 

Jan. 16, 1885. 
Mosser, Wilbur Carl, son of J ranklin and Anna, Dec. 

28, 1891. 
Neusbaum, Grace Helen, daughter of David and Emma, 

Jan. 25, 1887. 



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Neusbaiim, child of David and Emma, Feb. 1, 1890. 
Ocker, child of John and Rachel, Nov. 14, 1885. 
Olden, Blanch G., adult, Nov. 10, 1889. 
On, John Wilson, son of John and M., Sept 14, 1872. 
Orr, Mollie E., daughter of John and M., Sept. 14, 

1872. 
Orr, Percie Kerr, son of John and M., Sept. 14, 1872. 
Orr, John G., adult, May 23, 1875. 
Orr, Mary Annetta, adult, Feb. 18, 1876. 
Orr, Nannie Caldwell, daughter of John and j\lartha, 

Sept. 1, 1877. 
Orr, William Thomas, son of John and Martha, Sept. 

6, 1879. 
Orr, Thomas Edgar, son of John and Maggie, Sept, 14, 

1880. 
Orr, child of John and Maggie, Sept. 14, 1880. 
Orr, child of John and Maggie, Sept. 14, 1880. 
Phelabaum, David Carl, son of Harry and Mary, Nov. 

4, 1882. 
Phelabeuni, Ellen Komaine, daughter of Harry and 

Mary, Nov. 14, 1885. 
Phelabaum, William Burr, son of Harvey and Mary, 

May 14, 1887. 
Quigley, Helen Blythe, daughter of Sharp and Ellie, 

i\ray 18, 1895. 
Reese, Cyrus, adult, Nov. 15, 1885. 
Rhodes, Robert McCune, son of Samuel and Maggie, 

Aug. 23, 1874. 
Rhodes, Walter Wylie, son of Samuel and Maggie, Nov. 

6, 1883. 
Rhodes, Maggie Beossie, daughter of Samuel and Mag- 
gie, May 14, 1887. 



152 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Rhoads, Ina May, adult, May 20, 1888. 
Robinson, Mary Ann, adult, May 25, 1874. 
Roddy, Robert Oscar, at Shade Gap, June 15, 1884. 
Seilliammer, Florence Margaret, daughter of William 

and Belle, Oct. 28, 1876. 
Seilhammer, Charles Emerson, son of William and 

Belle, June, 1879. 
Shank, Carrie Agnes, adult, Nov. 14, 1886. 
Shank, Isaac B., adult, Feb. 27, 1876. 
Skank, Mary Jane, adult, May 20, 1877. 
Shank, Sarah Ellen, adult. May 18, 1890. 
Sharpe, Mary Ann Bigier, daughter of John and Jen- 
nie, Oct. 28, 1876. 
Sharpe, Alexander, son of John and Jennie, Nov.], 

1884. 
Sheaffer, William Wylie, son of William and Sarah, 

Feb. 12, 1877. 
Skiles, Mrs. Martha Jane, Feb. 13, 1876. 
Skiles, Martha Elizabeth, daughter of James and Jane, 

Nov. 8, 1877. 
Skinner, Kora Ann, adult, May 22, 1886. 
Smith, Bessie, daughter of Daniel and Lilly, Nov. 19, 

1887. 
Smith, Arthur Bradley, son of John, May 17, 1890. 
Smith, Grace, daugliter of Daniel and Lilly, May, 1894. 
Smith, Clarence Birtrent, son of Lowi'ie and Salome, 

Mar. 17, 1896. 
Smith, Charles Henry, son of Lowrie and Salome, Mar. 

17, 1896. 
Smith, Mary Jane, adult, May 8, 1878. 
Smith, Sydney Anson, son of Wm. and Lucinda, Nov, 

1873. 



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Smith, Jennie Agnew, daughter of William and Eliza- 
beth, Sept. 12, 1874. 
Smith, Boyd Sharpe, adult Nov. 10, 1878. 
Smith, ^largai-et Virginia, adult, Nov. 20, 1879. 
Smith, Naomi, daughter of John and Agnes, May 14, 

1877. 
Smith, Eruee McCarrell, son of David and Rosanna, 

May 21, 1881. 
Smith, David Alexander, son of David and Rosanna, 

May 21, 1881. 
Smith, Walter Ernest, son of Lovvrie and Salome, Mav 

13, 1882. 
Smith, Lilly Gertrude, daughter of Lowrie and Salome, 

Nov. 1, 1884. 
Smith, Bertlia Virginia, daughter ot Lowrie and Salome, 

May 11, 1886. 
Steidler, Johnson A., adult, Nov. 14, 188(3. 
Steidler, Harriett Edna, daughter of James and Nannie, 

Nov. 13, 1897. 
Stewart, Harry Cleveland, son of Frank and Jennie, 

Sept. 10, 1887. 
Stewart, child of Frank, Aug. 27, 1896. 
Stewart, John Howard, son of Clark and Helen, 

Sept. 8, 1872. 
Stewart, Bessie May, daughter of Charles and Rachel, 

Sept. 16, 1882. 
Stewart, child of Charles and Rachel, Sept. 3, 1884. 
Stevick, Nettie P., adult, Feb. 20, 1876. 
Stitt, William Dorris, at Shade Gap, June 15, 1884. 
Stitt, Harry C, at Shade Gap, June 15, 1884, 
Strohm, Albert, adult, Jan. 31, 1892. 
Strohm, child of Bert and Sadie, Feb. 7, 1897. 



154 THE MIDDLE SPRIXG 

Btrohm, child of Edward and Minnie, Feb. 7, 1897. 
Htrohm, Daniel Paul, son of Bert and Sadie, Jan. 26, 

1895. 
Summerville, Bessie, daughter of John and Maranda, 

May 11, 1886. 
Summerville, Alonzo, son of John and Maranda, May 

11, 1886. 
Summerville, Mrs. Maranda, Jan. 24, 1886. 
Summerville, Robinson Eugene, son of David and Re- 
becca, May 14, 1877. 
Summerville, Mary Agnes, daughter of David and Re- 

beca, Nov. "29, 1879. 
Summerville, John Franklin, son of David and Rebeca, 

May 13, 1882. 
Taylor, Mary E. adult Feb. 27, 1876. 
Taylor, Emma Jane, adult Feb. 27, 1876. 
Taylor, Inmk Ellsworth, Mar. 31, 1889. 
Thompson, E. Middlecoff, Jan. 11, 1873. 
Ulrieh, Susan Virginia, adult Nov. 11, 1883. 
Ulrich, John Britton, adult Nov, 11, 1883. 
Warren, Annie Mary, adult Nov. 15, 1885. 
Warren, John Franklin, adult Jan. 24, 1886. 
Warren, David Clark, adult Nov. 20, 1887. 
Warren, Samuel Palmei", son of Henry and Ada, Nov. 

18, 1893. 
Warren, Charles Clark, son of Henry and Ada, Nov. 

18, 1893. 
Watson, Lilly Agnes, adult Nov. 15, 1885. 
Watson, William G. adult Jan. 22, 1888. 
Wendt, Evaline Kate, daughter of Charles and Lizzie, 

Feb. 7, 1897. ^ _ 

Wellar, Stella, adult Feb. 14, 1876. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 155 

Wherry, Cliarles Howlaiid, son of Samuel and Esther, 

May 1878. 
Winemaii, Mary Catharine, daugliter of Henry and 

Jeanette, Sept. 14, 1880. 
Wineman, George Ehner, son of Henry and Jeanette, 

Sept. 16, 1882. 
Wineman, Henry Floyd, son of Henry and Jeanette, 

Jan. 25, 1887. 
Wineman, Friedeth Lerlue, daughter of Henry and 

Jeanette, Jan. 25, 1887. 
Wineman, Frank Judson, son of Henry and Jeanette, 

Feb. 1, 1890. 
Wonders, child of William and Lizzie, Nov. 1, 1884. 
Wylio, Harriett Ann, daughter of Kev. S. S. and Jennie, 

Oct. 28, 187(3. 
Wylie, Eva Teressa, daughter of Rev. S. S. and Jennie, 

May 17, 1879. 
Wylie, Samuel Duncan, son of Rev. S. S. and Jennie, 

May 11, 1886. 
Zeigler, Anna Mythia, adult Nov. 10, 1889. 
Zeigler, William Swanzey, adult May 18, 1890. 



156 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

MARRIAGES BY REV. S. S. WYLIE. 



Asper, John and Mary E. McElwain, Sept. 4, 1873. 
Baker, David S. and Mary C. Renshaw, Dec. 24, 1872. 
Baker, James M. and Emma E. Miller, Nov. 29, 1883. 
Baker, Luther B, and Annie McCoy, Nov. 13, 1890, 
Bard, William Orr and Maggie B. Johnston, Dec. 14, 

1880. 
Beam, Sylvester and Emma J. Stewart, Nov. 8, 1877. 
Beattie, G, Edgar and Ada Moody, Jan. 17, 1883. 
Bell, Samuel and Mrs. Matilda Doret, June 10, 1875, 
Berrier, George W. and Mattie Smith, June 1, 1881. 
Bishop, Alvin and Mary E. Taylor, Dec, 22, 1881. 
Blair, William S., and Lucinda Rebok, Jan. 4, 1876. 
Burkhart, Joseph and Mollie Burk, Jan 12, 1898. 
Burkholder, Jacob A. and Anna Hefflefinger, Mar. 12, 

1874. 
Campbell, James A. and Maggie Lindsay, Dec. 3, 1885. 
Chamberlain, John A., and Anna Finkey, May 7, 1885. 
Chamberlain, Clark and Lizzie Reese, Dec. 22, 1887. 
Clippinger, Levi H. and I\Iary Hampsher, Dec. 31, 

1878. 
Clever, John D. and Delia H. Kitzmiller, Sept. 26,1889. 
Coffey, Gilson K. and Stella M. Skiles, April 6, 1886. 
Coover, W^illiam and Maggie Beistline, Oct,, 1893, 
Coover, Harry A. and Laura Goodyear, Nov. 25, 1897. 
Cope, George and Keziah B. McCune, Jan. 22, 1889. 
Cramer, David L. and Alice S. Lesher, Dec. 19, 1878. 
Crauft, William F, and Anna M. Goshert, Aug. 2, 1877. 
Cressler, Robert J. and Annie E. Pilgrim, Jan. 22,1874, 
Culbertson, Clarence H. and Lizzie Bower, Oct. 26, 1893. 
Deardorff, William M. and Clara M. Smith, Nov. 18, 

1879. 



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Dehaven, Jacob and Clara Taylor, Dec. 24, 1872. 
Delhi, Emerson and Agnes Rice, July 16, 1872. 
Elliott, Guy Bruce and Margaret Jonston, Dec, 23, 

1887. 
Ferree, James M. and Lizzie Diller. June 2, 1881. 
Ferree, Daniel R. and Emma Keefer, Jan. 8, 1885. 
Ferree, Elmer W. and Jennie W. Ferree, Dec. 28, 188G. 
Finkey, James B. and Maria Finkey, July 28, 1872. 
Foglesonger, J. iVrtliur and Louella Lindsay, Jan. 7, 

1890. 
Foreman, James and Dessie M. Fleming, March 4, 1879. 
Fortua, Samuel R. and Annie Shearer, Jan. 30, 1894. 
Franklin, Harry A. and Ella M. NefFe, Dec. 25, 1895. 
Gillen, William and Martha A. Fetter, Nov. 25, 1879. 
Goodhart, Charles and Alice Pilgrim, March 15, 1892. 
Goodyear, John and Mary McCullough, Sept. 10, 1874. 
Gochenauer, John S. and Emma J. Tavlor, Feb. 10, 

1881, 
Gracey, J. Sharp and Maggie Bard, Dec. 14, 1876. 
Halter, David E. and F. Stevick, March 2, 1876. 
Halby, Hiram E. and HannaliHeberlig, April 17,1873. 
Hamilton, James, H. and Sadie C. Harvey, Dec. 27, 

1881. 
Hampsher, Jolm R. and Mattie E. Baker, Dec. 25, 

1877. 
Hartzell, Dr. Z, D. and Amanda Stevick, Aug. 15, 

1876. 
Hawk, James H. and ^lary A. Stouffer, Nov. 6, 1879. 
Hawk, John and Ida E. Bigler, June 20, 1885. 
Hays, Edward S. and Maggie Beattie, Dec. 5, 1878. 
Hays, John C. M. and Clara Deilil, Dec. 22, 1892. 
Hoover, Frank M, and Jennie E. Hoffman, Mav 15, 

1889. 



158 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Hoover, Sylvester W. and Matilda Anderson, Oct. 4, 

1876. 
Horsfield, John and Clara O. Martin, May 20, 1884. 
Huffman, Alfred E. and Eva J. Croft, Oct. 14, 1884. 
Huston, S. M. and Jennie Coover, Jan. 24, 1878. 
Hykes, George E. and Bessie D. McClay, Feb. 15, 1893. 
Jayne, Milton A. and Eva J. Gosliert, March 28, 1898. 
Johns, Frank W. and Martha A. Rhodes, Sept. 20, 

1888. 
Karper, Samuel B. and ]\Iary E. Renshaw, June 2(3, 

1882. 
Karper, Reuben D. and Sally Pilgrim, Dec. 11, 1889. 
Kelly, John T. and Jane Ellen McClay, Dec. 22, 1898. 
Killinger, Maxwell and Maggie Boyd, Feb. 2, 1888. 
King C. and Cora Skinner, July 2, 1892. 
Koontz, Mervin and Annie E. White, Jan. 7, 1891. 
Koser, David and Susan C. Chestnut, Oct, 18, 1887. 
Lamond, James and Abbie P. Allen, July 3, 1882. 
Lindsay, John Alex, and Rebecca J. McCune, Dec. 30, 

1875. 
Lindsay, William F. and Anna B. Zeller, Dec. 20, 

"l882. 
Long, William J. and May A. Finkey, Nov. 12, 

1830. 
Love, Edgar and Cora Burk, ]March 1(5, 1893. 
Lynton, Dr. Harry and Sadie E. Smith, Dec. 15, 1881. 
]\[ason, John V. and Maggie S. Campbell, Sept. (3, 

1881. 
Masser, Franklin A. and Anna M. Miller, Nov. 9, 1889. 

McClay, Ralph and Anna , Feb. 1895. 

McClelland, John H. and Maggie E. Quigley, Feb. 28, 

1877. 



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McClelland, William and Liberty M. Quigley, Dee. 22, 

1887. 
McClure, A. B. and Lillie A. Watson, Dec. 20, 1888. 
McCormick, Georoe K. and Carrie O. Miller, Dec. 19, 

1882. 
McCnlloch, T. C. and Martha E. Fickes, Nov. 16, 

1876. 
McCulloch, Geori2;e H. and Hannah M. White, January 

12, 1899. 
McCnlloch, Jolm C. and Mary R. Fickes, Dec. 3, 1879. 
McCullough, Samuel C. and Annie A. Hawk, March 

16, 1897. 
McCune, William E. and Maggie E. Quiglej, Dec. 19, 

1889. 
McXeal, William A. and Alice A. McCulloch, Jan. 25, 

1885. 
Means, Joseph C. and Jeanette E. Peebles, February 

7, 1889. 
Means, William S. and Jane M. Quigley, Oct. 19, 

1893. 
Miller, Samuel F. ;ind Kate M. Ober, March 14, 1878. 
Miller, Samuel and Susan Fleegle, May 16, 1890, 
Mickey, Elmer and Lucy Armstrong, Dec. 4, 1890. 
Mixell, David A. and Jane E. Davis, March 27, 1873. 
Morrow, Boyd and Nannie M. jNlateer, Jan. 3, 1877. 
Mower, Edward D. and Emma J. Reber, Dec. 28, 1897. 
Mowery, S. J. and Jeanette Unverzagt, Sept. 29, 1885. 
Myers,' Abram and Mary C. An, Dec. 30, 1879. 
Myers, Samuel and Eleanor Railing, Oct. 10, 1889. 
Nead, Benjamin M. and Liberty J. Hays, Oct. 14, 

1875. 
Ocker, John A. and Rachel J. Byers, Jan. 31, 1884. 



160 THE MIDDLE SFRING 

Powell, William A. and Anna M. Pilgrim, Aug. 20, 

1885. 
Quigley, Sharp and Ella Gross, Oct. 5, 1893. 
Reber, Jacob H. and Anna M. Zeigler, July, 1896. 
Reese, George A. and Mary E. Rebok, Dec. 5, 1878. 
Reese, Cyrus and Maggie E. Carbangh, Apr. 28, 1881. 
Rhinebart, Ferdinand and Mary Heberlig, April 17, 

1873. 
Rodes, (?) Samuel S. and Ada K. Allen, June 7, 1880, 
Rudolph, Henry D. and Louisa Sheets, Nov. 11, 1875. 
Seariglit, Robert and Maggie J. Sharp, Dec. 13, 1883. 
Sentman, William and Alice V. Martin, May 16, 1889. 
Shambaugh, Josiah and Dessie J. Creamer, July 28, 

18^81. 
Shamberger, Charles A. and Abbie E. Culj), jMarch 21, 

1882. 
Shank, Isaac H. and Rebecca E. Neff, Sept. 10, 1883. 
Sharp, John and Mrs. Jennie 1^. Agnew, January 21, 

1875. 
Sharp, Thomas and Jennie E. McClay, Oct. 26, 1876. 
Sheaffer, William H. and Sarah B. Henry, Oct. 14, 

1875. 
Sheaffer, John W. and Maggie K. Stair, January 1, 

1885. 
Shearer, John B. and Laura J. Harvey, July 13, 1887. 
Sherman, (?) Harry C. and Naomi Smith, Dec. 22, 

1896. 
Shively, and Annie Hefflefinger, Feljruary i), 

1889. 
Shoap, John H. and Annie Diven, Oct. 26, 1893. 
Shreiner, Harry C. and Naomi Smith, Dec. 22, 1896. 
Skiles, James W. and Jennie M. Bard, Jan- 18, 1876. 



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Smith, Laurie F. and Salome C. Smith, Feb. 17, 1881. 
Smith William and Lydia lekes, Feb. 28, 1883. 
Smith, Daniel A. and Matilda Ferree, Feb. 18, 1880. 
Smith, John X. and Elizabeth Smith, April 14, 1892. 
Snoke, A. F. and L. S. Foglesonger, Sept. 9, 1884. 
Stonffer, William and Lillie Sigler, Sept, 30, 1880. 
Squires, Ambrose C. and Ella M. Mateer, Sept. 7, 188(3. 
Steidler, James W. and Nannie , Jan. 25, 

1894. 
Strohm, Eldgar and Minnie Hefflefinger, June, 1893. 
Strohm, William A. and Sadie Bower, Jan. 24, 2894. 
Swonger, J. R. and Annie E. Watson, February 9, 

^ 1888. 
Swonger, Bruce and Mary Steidler, March 20, 1890. 
TayloV, John M. and I^lary Zearfoss, May 12, 1881. 
Walker, Win field A. and Margaret Devor, Jan. 19, 

1875. 
Walters, Elias and Alberta J. Fickes, Feb. 16, 1887. 
Watson, William and Mrs. Sarah Robinson, August 16, 

1888. 
Weakley, James K. and AUie M. Wherry, February 9, 

1898. 
Weigle, William E. ar.d Emma F. Lindsay, March 6, 

1888. 
Whorley, Jacob M. and Ella Hampsher, July 25, 1895. 
Wingler, William A. and Mary E. Shade, July 22, 

1884, 
Wonders, William B. and Lizzie Renshaw, Dec. 6, 

1881. 
Woodburn, Dayid Sterrett and Mary E. JNlateer, Dec. 

20, 1883. 
Woods, Richard E. and Rena C. McClay, February 15, 

1893. 



162 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

DEATHS DURING THE PASTOEATE OF REV. 
S. S. AVYLIE. 



Adams, Mrs. Clara, April 14, 1886. 

Allen, George, Sept. 1, 1872, aged 1 year. 

Allen, George, June 9, 1881, aged 62 years. 

Bard, William, S., Oct. 26, 1877. 

Bard, Mrs. Elizabeth, Dec. 19, 1893, aged 71 years, 6 

months and 12 days. 
Bard, Isabella, Oct. 22, 1899. 
Barner, Ida Mary, Nov. 12, 1899. 
Barr, Robert, June 28, 1881. 

Beattie, infant of S and M., 1876. 

Beattie, Sarah Belle, Oct. 27, 1879. 

Beattie, Howard, Aug. 21, 1882, aged 6 months and 3 

days. 
Beattie, Mrs. Lucinda, May 10, 1884, aged 75 years. 
Beattie, Mrs. ^Mary R., June 24, 1884, aged 38 years. 
Beattie, infant of S., Oct. 14, 1884. 
Beattie, Smith Fulton, Jan. 31, 1885, aged 13 months. 
Beattie, Lucy Allen, March 4, 1885, infant of Edgar 

and M. 
Blair, T. P., Nov. 12, 1877. 
Blair, James, Dec. 5, 1882. 
Blair, William, Aug. 10, 1890, aged 40 years. 
Blair, William H., Sept., 1895, aged 69 years. 
Blair, Rebecca, Sept. 29, 1899. 
Bingham, Thomas. Jan. 5, 1891, aged 68 years. 
Bowers, Peter, March, 1893. 
Boyd, Mary, Apr. 20, 1875. 
Boyd, Sarah E., Dec. 25, 1890, aged 60 years. 
Boyd, Dr. Samuel W., May 29, 1897, aged 69 years. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1(38 

Breckenridge, S. Grier, May, 1896, aged 60 years. 

Britton, Thomas, Apr. 22, 1873, aged G6 years. 

Britton, Robert, Feb., 1875. 

Britton, Margaret, April, 1878. 

Britton, Sarah, Feb. 6, 1880, aged 86 years. 

Britton, Eliza, April, 1880. 

Britton, Mollie, May 4, 1883, aged 72 years. 

Buss, Mrs. Mollie, Feb. 15, 1895. 

Canipl)ell, ]\Irs. Robert, Nov., 1893. 

Chaml)erlain, Charles, May, 1892. 

Clark, Mrs. Mary, July 20, 1882, aged 67 years, 1 month 

and 4 days. 
Coover, ^Irs. John, April, 1893. 
Coover, Boyd, Nov. 1, 1898. 
Cox, Mrs. Jane, 1896. 
Cox, Mary, Feb., 1877, aged 84 years. 
Creamer, Jacob, Feb., 1875, 
Creamer, Oliver, Sept. 11, 1881, infant. 
Creamer, Eliza, Oct. 13, 1889, aged 81 years. 
Cressler, William, May 7, 1874, aged 72 years. 
Cressler, Mrs. Susan, June, 1877, aged 81 years. 
Cressler, ^Irs. Annie, Feb. 4, 1887, aged 34 yeais. 
Culbeitson, Benjamin, Feb. 6, 1897, aged 75 years. 
Davis, Mrs. Benjamin, 1896. 

Davidson, Samuel, Sept. 19, 1889, aged 6 months. 
Davidson, Mr., Jan. 29, 1890. aged 50 years. 
Daugherty, Joseph, March 1, 1888, aged 74 years. 
Daugherty, George, Sept., 1893, aged 71 years. 
Daugherty, William, July, 1894. 
Deihl, Albert, Feb. 15, 1879, aged 3 years. 
Delhi, Margaret, May 9, 1880, aged 39 years. 
Deihl, Mi's. Margaret, May 9. 



164 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Deihl, Sarah Elizabeth, April 26, 1884. 

Deihl, John, Sept. 17, 1884, infant of Enoch Deihl. 

Deihl, Margaret, Oct. 5, 1884, aged 59 years. 

Deiner, Jnlia, Aug., 1878. 

Deiner, John, May 18, 1897, aged near 87 years. 

Elliott, Robert, April 28, 1873, aged 73 years. 

Elliott, Judge, Dec, 1880, aged 54 years. 

Elder, Sarah, Feb, 5, 1888, aged 74 years. 

Ferree, Mrs. Nancy, Sept. 30, 1879. 

Ferree, John Crittendon, Feb. 20, 1881. 

Ferree, Daniel Keller, Jan., 1887, aged 25 years. 

Ferree, Mrs. Elizabeth, April 1, 1897, aged 67 years. 

Fickes, Carl, Nov. 21, 1881. 

Fickes, Josiah, April, 1890, aged 78 years. 

Fickes, Elizabeth, Nov. 9, 1891. 

Filey, Wilson, May, 1889. 

Foust, Hannah, Oct., 1895, aged 79 years. 

Gillan, William, April 24, 1884, aged 65 years. 

Gracey, David, Jan. 15, 1898, aged 64 years. 

Graham, Robert C, Sept. 17, 1887, aged 81 years, 8 

months and 27 days. 
Gross,. Andrew, Aug. 15, 1890, aged 83 years. 
Grove, Charles, Dec. 30, 1890, aged 13 years. 
Hale, John W., Oct. 20, 1877. 
Halter, David, Jan. 26, 1880, aged 31 years. 
Hampsher, Mrs., June 9, 1876. 
Hampsher, Mamie, C, infant, Aug. 3, 1876. 
Harlan. George, March 11, 1873, aged 80 years. 
Harris, Nerve, Aug. 10, 1886, aged 27 years. 
Hartzell, Mrs., Aug. 31, 1877. 
Harvey, Samuel, Sept. 25, 1872, aged 25 years. 
Harvey, Joseph, Sept. 19, 1877, aged 27 years, 6 months. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 165 



Harvey, Mrs. Mary J., March 10, 1891, aged 30 years. 

Haverstine, Willie, 1879, aged 11 years. 

Haverstiiie, Edgar F., 1879, aged o years. 

Haverstine, Mrs. John, April 23, 1879, aged 32 years. 

Hefflebower. Charles, August, 1899. 

Hefflebower, Mrs. Susan,"Dec. 3, 1896. 

Hefflefinger, Frank Hays, March 24, 1882, aged 14 

years. 
Hefflefinger, Thomas, Oct. 8, 1896. 
Henderson, Eliznbeth, June 8, 1896, aged 72 years. 
Henderson, Martha, March, 1897. 
Hollar, Peter, Feb. 22, 1889, aged 72 years. 
Hoffman, Bessie, Feb. 1, 1890, aged 6 years, 6 months. 

and 2 days. 
Irwin, B. Frank, Jan. 2, 1897, aged 76 years. 
Johnston, Rebecca, Nov. 20, 1881. 
Johnston, George, ]May 23, 1884, aged 85 years. 

Johnston , Aug. 29, 1887, infant. 

Johnston, J. Wilson, May 10, 1889, aged 36 years. 
Johnston, Mrs. Martha Jane, March 26, 1892, aged 42 

years. 
Johnston, A., Nov. 1898. 
Keefer, Daniel, March, 1894. 
Kelso, Willie, Sept. 30, 1882, aged 26 years. 
Kelso, Mrs. Alexander, March 19, 1884. 
Kendig, Mrs. Lottie, July 12, 1884, aged 39 years, 
KilHnger, Anna Maria, Nov. 12, 1895, aged 40 years. 
Kirkpatrick, Amos, Sept. 13, 1887, aged 37 years. 
Kissinger, John, Jan. 25, 1888, aged 19 years. 
Kissinger, J. M., April, 1886 
Kitzmiller, William, Jan. 22, 1892. 
Kvner, John, 1888. 



166 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Kyner, William, Dec. 29, 1891, aged 31 years. 

Kyner, James A., Feb. 4, 1896, aged 32 years. 

Koontz, Mrs. Annie, April, 1896. 

Laird, Mrs. Agnes, June 3, 1881, aged 40 years. 

Laughlin, Charity, March 22, 1882 . 

Laughlin, Margaret, Feb. 7, 1888, aged 77 years. 

Laughlin, Mrs. Margaret, May 9, 1896, aged 71 years. 

Laughlin, Hugh, Sept. 30, 1898. 

Franklin, Samuel, Nov., 1898. 

Lindsay, Thomas, Oct. 17, 1887, aged 72 years. 

Lindsay, Fulton, Jan. 28, 1892, aged 78 years, 

Linn, William, April 5, 1873, aged 86 years. 

Linn, James, July 24, 1885, aged 65 years. 

Linn, James McCarrell, April 16, 1895, aged 17 years. 

Locheman, B. Loyd, Sept. 6, 1884, infjint. 

Lusk, Fannie Ellen, April, 1872, aged 37 years. 

Lutz, David, Aug. 26, 1877, aged 47 years. 

Main, , August 23. 1879, infant of Marshall. 

Main, Mrs. Sarah, Aug. 17, L881. 

Main, Bertie, March 22, 1881, aged 10 years. 

Main, William, Sept. 28, 1S82, aged 72 years. 

Martin, Daniel, March 6, 1875. 

Mateer, Alfred, Oct. 4, 1882, aged 25 years. 

Mateer, Mrs. Susan, Oct. 5, 1887, aged 57 years, 

Mateer, Mrs. Mary, August, 1891, aged 88 years. 

Mateer, Newton, October, 1893. 

Mateer, John B„ Novemlier, 1895. 

Maxwell, , October 21, 1880, aged 9 years. 

McClay, James Hemphill, February 21, 1888, aged 6 

months. 
McClay, Jolin, 1892. 
McClay, Mrs. jMargaret, 1894. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 167 

McClay, Charles, February (>, 1897, aged 76 years. 
McClay, Robert, April, 1881. 

jNIcElheiiiiy, Zora Luella, February 18, 1877, infant. 
McElhenny, Mrs. Elizabeth, Nov. 17, 1881, aged 79 

years. 
McEhvain, William, Angiist, 1874, aged 80 years. 
McClelland, Mrs. Mary, Sept. 6, 1881, aged 74 years. 
McClure, James, January 4, 1880. 
McClure, Mrs. Agnes, Dec. 16, 1893, aged 66 years. 
McCoy, Grizelda, March 13, 1873, inflmt, 
McCoy, Elizabeth, October 29, 1874, aged 56 years. 
McCoy, Laura, Aug. 13, 1880. 
McCoy, Mrs. Mary, Dec. 9, 1895, aged 60 years. 
McCuUoch, 1878, infant. 

McCulloch. Laura Belle, March 0, 1879, aged 6 years. 
IMcCulloch, Willie, March 10, 1879, aged 9Vears. 
McCulloch, Annie March 10, 1879. 
McCulloch, infant of C. and M. January 4, 1882. 
McCulloch, J. Huston January 1, 1894, aged 72 years. 
McCune, Mi-s. Jane Mar. 2, 1874, aged 71 years. 
McCune, K. S. April 30, 1874, aged 80 years. 
McCune, Sarah Ann, October, 1, 1874, aged 72 years. 
McCune, John, August 18, 1880, aged 74 years. 
McCune, Mrs. Mary, July 11, 1881. 
McCune, Hugh, September 8, 1881, aged 76 years. 
McCune, INlrs. John, September 10, 1884, aged 25 years. 
McCune, J. A. C. April 16, 1895. 
McCune, John B, October 3, 1898, aged 45 years. 
McLaughlin, Wilbur, 1896. 

I\IcVeety, Mrs. Sadie, I\Iarch 19, 1887, aged 29 years. 
Means, William, September 1894, infant of Wm. 
Middlecoff, David, November 1, 1876. 



168 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Mitchell, Mrs. Mary, August 28, 1877, aged 75 years. 

Mitchell, Mary, May 22, 1897. 

Morrison, Jonas, July 26, 1872. 

Morrow, Elizabeth Jane, December 21, 1876. 

Morrow, Mrs. Jane, December 12, 1877, aged 70 years. 

Morrow, George B. McClelland, April 9, 1879, aged 15 

years. 
Morrow, William Bruce, May 22, 1879. 
Morrow, Edward, February 28, 1891, aged 17 years. 
Morrow, Mrs. Rosanna, March 17, 1882. 
Morrow, Ida Belle, January 22, 1885, aged 23 years. 
Morrow, John B., December 25, 1894, aged 72 years. 
Mowers, Col. William, April 11, 1888, aged 65 years. 
Mulholland, James, January 3, 1877, aged 89 years. 
Myers, Mrs. Samuel, January 18, 1888, aged 61 years. 
Myers, Catharine, August 7, 1888, aged 46 years. 
Nailor, Sadie, Jane, April 29, 1879. 
Nailor, Eddie, l^ebruary 22, 1881. 
Neff, Beckie, June 24, 1887. 

Neusbaum, Willie, November 30, 1886, aged 4 years. 
Neusbaum, Mrs. Maria, May 1891. 
Neusbaum Moses, April 1892. 
(3cker, Nellie May, July 27, 1890, aged 1 year 9 

months. 
Orr, William Edgar, March 25. 1880, aged 20 years, 

8 months. 
Orr, Sr., William, January 31, 1881, aged 79 years. 
Orr, Willie, Sept. 18, 1882, aged 3 years, 3 months. 
Orr, William, Sept. 3, 1884, aged 59 years. 
Orr, John W., June 4, 1896, aged 54 years. 
Orr, Martha Breckenridge, October 17, 1896, aged near 

82 years. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 169 



OiT, Mrs. Agnes, April 21, 1898, aged 72 years. 
Peebles, jNIrs. Martha, August 1, 1874, aged 30 years. 
Peebles, B. A., an elder at M. S., July 4, 1877, aged 51 

years, 8 in(3ntlis. 
Peebles, James, 1892. 
Peebles, Mrs. IMary, June 1, 1898, aged 74 years, 3 

months. 
Phelabaum, Mrs. Mary. June, 1888, aged 27 years. 
Pilgrim, Martha Ann, March 3, 1877, aged 65 years. 
Pilgrim, William, August 11, 1877, aged 81 years. 
Pilgrim, John, March 3, 1888, aged 89 years.*^ 
Pilgrim, Joseph, April, 1888, aged 80. 
Pilgrim, Mrs. Mary R., 1894, aged 40 years. 
Pomeroy. Mrs. Mary Ann, December 8, 1882, aged 71 

years, 1 month. 
Powders, Norma j\Iarie, January 22, 1898. 
Quigley, David, July 14, 1882, aged 51 years, 10 

months and 1 day. 
Quigley, Mrs. Jane M., March 25, 1884, aged 62 years. 
Quigley, John, Sept. 15, 1891, aged about 78 years. 
Quigley, James Sharpe, Aug. 9, 1892, aged 72 years, 

6 months and 19 days. 
Reane, Mrs. Emma, April, 1893. 
Rebber, William, May 11, 1884. 
Reese, infant of Cyrus and Mary, Nov. 20, 1881. 
Reese, jMrs. Margaret, February 1, 1885, aged 30 years. 
Reese, John, Mai-ch, 1897. 

Renshaw, John, December 23, 1881, aged 75 years. 
Renshaw, Mrs. Elizabeth, October 5, 1889, aged 74 

years, 
Renshaw, David, May 2, 1896, aged 37 years. 
Reynolds, Beckie, May, 1876, aged 48 years. 



170 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Rhodes, John, November 28, 1895, aged 65 years. 

Rinehart, Ferdinand, May, 1896. 

Robinson, Mrs., April 10, 1874, aged 90 years. 

Sanders, George, May 26, 1874, aged 28 years. 

Schope, Mrs., 1876. 

Seilliammer, Florence M., February 17, 1879, aged 5 

years. 
Seilhammer, Harvey Deihl, August 18, 1884, aged 2 

years. 
Beilhannner, Jennie, March 10, 1888, aged 20 years. 
Seilhammer, John, May, 1895. 
Shannon, Mrs. Anna, May 13, 1896. 
Shank, David, November, 16, 1881. 
Sharp, Jane Ellen, April 23, 1882, aged 45 years, 
Shoap, Henry F., April 7, 1882, aged 9 years. 
Shryock, Edwin, April 26, 1884, aged 60 years. 
Smith, Polly, November 2, 1874, aged 70 years. 
Smith, Mary Elizabeth, infant of W. andL., March 4, 

1877. 
Smith, Mrs. Mary Hollar, May 25, 1880, aged 35 years. 
Smith Robert Henry, February 11, 1881, infant. 
Smith, Mrs. Susan, Nov. 17, 1882, Orrstown. 
Smith, Hugh, December 22, 1883, aged 77 years, 3 

days': 
Smith, Mrs. Lucir.da, February 13, 1884, 
Smith, Maria, December 7, 1884, aged 75 years, 2 

months. 
Smith, Mrs. Jacob, December 10, 1885, aged 49 years. 
Smith, Mrs. Mary, Deceml)er 13, 1887, aged 66 years. 
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth, November 1, 1889, aged 77 

years. 
Smith, Mrs. Mary Ann B., May, 1891. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 171 

Smith, Mrs. Salome C, January 13, 1897, aged 33 

years. 
Bnoddy, Jane, March 24, 1885, aged 72 years. 
Speer, Mrs., 1875. 
Speer, Mrs., ]^ebruaty 19, 1897, 
Steidler, Robert, 1879, aged 5 years. 
Steidler, Harvey S., November 9, 1895, aged 3 montlis. 
Stevick, Hettie P., September 8, 1877, aged 18 years. 
Stevick, Felix, February 8, 1898, aged near 79 years. 
Strohm, Mrs. John, December 8, 1887. 
Strohm, Anna ]\Iary, January 10, 1898, aged 9 months. 
Stewart, Mrs. John, June 11, 1890, aged 74 years. 
Stewart, Robert Patterson, December 15, 1890, aged 6 

months. 
Stewart, Mrs, Jolm, August, 1892, Orrstown. 
Stewart, 1894, infant of F. 
Stewart, John, 1896, over 80 years. 
Stouffer, Mrs. David, January 1, 1895, aged 70 years. 
Stumbaugh, Mrs., June, 1894. 
Summerville, David, April 5, 187(3. 
Summer ville, James, November 6, 1880, aged 90 years. 
Summerville, Mrs. Mancy, December 12, 1890. 
Swanzey, Col. Samuel, January 12, 1884, aged 72 years. 
Tanner, Mrs., 1889, aged 41 years. 
Taylor, Mary A., April 5, 1876. 
Taylor, Samuel, January 20, 1889, aged 60 years. 
Thumma, Mrs., August, 1878, 
Uhrich, David, June, 1883. 
Warren, Jennie, Nov. 13, 1883. 
Warren, Mrs. Henry, May 2, 1889, aged 27 years. 
Warren, William Roy, March 31, 1892, aged 5 months. 
Warren, Samuel, Feb. 10, 1895. 



172 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Watson, infant, March 22, 1877. 

Watson, Mrs. Mary, March 1888, aged 51 years. 

Wherry, David, Sept, 1873. 

Wherry, Mrs. Margaret, May 2, 1877, aged 65 years. 

Wherry, Charles H., August 1878, aged 2 years. 

Wherry, Lizzie, August 24, 1888, aged 74 years. 

White, Charles M., Dec. 4, 1885, aged 72 years. 

White, Mrs. Sarah, March 1895. 

Whiteman, February 1885, infant of Tom and Kittie, 

Whiteinan, Sarah M., March 11, 188G, infant. 

Whiteman, Mrs. Kittie, May 5, 1889, aged 46 years. 

Wilson, Nehemiah, Oct. 8, 1885, aged 70 years. 

Wilson, William, June 16, 1890, aged 46 years. 

Woodburn, James, November 5, 1883, aged 77 years. 

Woodburn, Mary, July 13, 1885. aged 76 years. 

Woodburn, Mrs. M., August 1894. 

Wylie, Mrs. Jane M., January 22, 1897, aged near 53 

years. 
Zearfoss, Theodore W. K., January 2, 1881, aged 29 

years. 
Zearfoss, Mrs. Anna, July 19, 1898, aged 71 years. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 173 

THE GRAVEYARDS. 



Sacred the shades where our loved ones are lying, 

Tenderly guarding, a vigil we keep. 

Softly above them the breezes are sighing, 

Sweetly they slumber, not dead but asleep. 

Among the hallowed spots of earth, there is none to 
which we turn with greater reverence, than the country 
graveyard, where unbroken stillness reigns, subduing 
the lieart for the touching lesson which it learns, as the 
eye rests upon the quiet sleeping place of the dead. 

The oldest enclosure at Middle Spring is especially 
interesting, because of its connection with the long ago, 
when the early settlers knelt beside the new made graves 
and 

A holy benediction, as sweet incense filled the air. 
While they laid their dead to rest in the lonely wild- 
wood there. 

Few of these devout pioneers sleep in marked graves, 
the oldest slab bearing ^date 1770. 

The lower yard was used as a burial place from the 
earliest history of the church, and within its bosom is 
the dust of thousands, while in the four yards. Lower, 
UpjDer, Hanna's and the Cemetery, it is estimated there 
have been seven thousand pei-sons laid to rest. Sur- 
rounding the lower bui'ial ground is a massive lime- 
stone wall, erected prior to 1805 and is yet in as per- 
fect a state of preservation as though but recently built. 
Here sleep the brave, the fur, the christian, the hero, 
the slave and 

"There are graves whose rudely shapen sod 
Bears the fresh foot prints where the sexton trod. 



174 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Graves where the verdure has not dared to shoot, 
Where the chance wild flower has not fixed its root. 
Whose slumbering tenants, dead without a name, 
The eternal record shall at length proclaim 
Pure as the holiest in the long array 
Of hooded, mitred or tiara'd clay." 
With the dawn of the nineteenth centuiy came de- 
mands for a more extended burial place, and a second 
graveyard, on the hill in the rear of the church, Avas 
consecrated for the use of the congregation. 

In 1842, at a cost of |800.00, this yard was enclosed 
by a wall of limestone, corresponding w^ith that around 
the lower yard. The entrances to both are hung with 
heavy iron gates and the interest of a sum of money is 
yearly expended in keeping the two 3^ards in good con- 
dition. The grave of Dr. Moodey is in the upper grave- 
yard, and to the memory of Dr. Cooper the congrega- 
tion erected a monument in the church ynrd, that those 
who go in and out to w'orship may be reminded of the 
worth of the pastors who labored here. At the entrance 
to the church yard is a sand stone shaft, to tlie memory 
of the brave men wIk^ went out from the Middle Spring 
church and lost their lives in defense ot their country, 
during the w^ar of the Rebellion. 

Hanna's graveyard, one mile north of Xewburg, was 
opened a hundred years ago, tor the accommodation of 
members of the congregation living bej'ond the Conodo- 
guinet, who had difficulty in crossing the stream when 
the AAaters were high, before the bridges were built. The 
dust of scores of early settlers rest in this lonely place, 
which is now in a state of neglect. Few of the graves 
are marked, briars and weeds overshadowing the conse- 



PRESCYTEEIAX CHURCH. 175 

crated spot where many ot the noblest of eartli lie asleep. 

Adjoining the upper burial ground is a tract of land 
known as the Cemetery deeded to the church in 1890 by 
Mr. William Duncan McCune, and dedicated as a slumb- 
ering place for those who worship at Middle Spring. 
The yards are all so full, that it is impossi])le to secure 
lots in any but the latter ground. 

In these four sacred spots are the families of Quigley, 
Brackenridge, Peebles, Orr, Clark, McKinney, McCune, 
Frazer, Pomeroy, Duncan, Herron, Linn, Patterson, > 
Maclay, Means, Nevin, Reynolds, McClelland, Rodgers, 
Hays, Thompson, Strain, Wherry, McElwain, Cox, 
Linn and many others. Decade after decade of time 
rolls by, unheeded ))y them ; j^ear after year adds 
many a grassy mound to the thousands on which have 
fallen tears of affection ; the murmur of the stream ca- 
resses the mossy steep, where lieroes and loved ones 
sweetly sleep; the morning light tinges with gold tlie 
hallowed sod; the purpling twilight lingers ei-e the night 
comes on ; the snow flakes mantle the hillside ; the night 
wind sighs in the topmost boughs of the forest trees ; the 
light-hearted pass l>y ; the thoughtful pause beneath the 
shades; lover and friend l)Ow in mute submission, while 
the toml) hides what was dear ; and still the children of 
Middle Spring slumber on, unmindful that their resting 
place is one of the most beaunfid on eartli. 



176 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS. 



UPPER GRAVEYARD. 



Allen, George, born June 16, 1819, died June 9, 1881. 
Allen, William, born 1777, died May 11, 1856. 
Allen, Mary, born 1783, died June 26, 1828. 
Allen William, born 1740, died September 2, 1805. 
Allen, Lucinda, wife of Wm., born 1783, died June 9, 

1809. 
Beattie, Samuel, born 1805, died July 8, 1854. 
Boyd, Dr. S, AV., no dates. 

Boyd, Sarah, born 1830, died December 25, 1890. 
Boyd, John, born May 12, 1799, died February 28, 

1835. 
Boyd, Elizabeth, wife of John, born 1795, died July 

11, 1848. 
Campbell, EHzabeth, born 1773, died April 20, 1856. 
Carson, Elizabeth, wife of John, born 1762, died May 

10, 1839. 
Clark, George, born June 19, 1772, died August 10, 

1829. 
Clark, Ann, born December 15, 1779, died December 

10, 1854. 
Clark, Robert, sr., born 1740, died August 1818. 
Clark, James, born 1803, died May 14, 1841. 
Clark, Samuel, born 1782, died August 15, 1820. 
Clark, Elizabeth, born 1783, died April 11, 1815. 
Creamer, Eliza, born August 22, 1808, died October 13, 

1889. 
Creamer, Jacob P., born September" 26, 1816, died Feb- 
ruary 23, 1875. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 177 

Creamer, Mary, born May 1850, died Sept. 27, 1868. 

Creamer, George P., born 1783, died June 27, 1816. 

Dauo'herty, Joseph Bradley, born 1815, died March 1, 
^ ^ 1888. 

Daiigherty, George McCUire, born 1822, died Septem- 
ber 6. 1893. 

Daugherty, William, born 1830, died June 2, 1894. 

Davis, Margaret, wife of James, born October 23, 
1835, died July 6, 1890. 

Deihl, Esrom, son of Enoch, born October 6, 1868, died 
February 16, 1869, 

Deihl, Anna Margaret, born June 12, 1863, died Jan- 
uary 12, 1864. 

Devor, Agnes Jane, born August 17, 1819, died April 
17, 1823. 

Devor, Ann, born December 11, 1789, died Septem- 
ber 12, 1841. 

Devor, Agnes Ann, born April 2, 1829, died August 13, 
1849. 

Donaldson, Arabella, born 1808, died October 4, 1860. 

Duncan, John, born 1751, died June 23, 1825. 

Duncan, Elizabeth, died November 17, 1822. 

Duncan, Samuel, son of William and Jane, born Decem- 
ber 12, 1818, died April 10, 1851. 

Duncan, William, born 1775, died September 5, 1841. 

Duncan, Jane, born 1780, died June 27, 1839. 

Ferguson, John, born 1794, died January 11, 1862. 

Ferguson, Jenette, born 1784, died January 2, 1862. 

Ferguson, William, born 1828, died October 2, 1853. 

Ferree, Jcthn, born November 3, 1787, died March 30, 
1863. 

Ferree, Margaret, wife of John, born May 5, 1786, died 
June"l3, 1865. 

Ferree, Nany Lehman, wife of James, born August 4, 



178 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

1831, died October 1, 1879, 
Ferree, John C, born May 27, 1863, died February 19, 

1881. 
Ferree, Lizzie Diller, wife of James, born January 12, 

1830, died April 1, 1897. 
Ferree, Daniel K., born Nov. 9, 1861, died January 19, 

1887. 
Fickes, Josiah, born 1812, died April 2, 1890. 
Fickes, Elizabeth A., born 1814. died November 11, 

1891. 
Frazer, Annie Wilson, wife of Andrew, born October 

10, 1799, died December 8, 1857. 
Frazer, Andrew, born March 1, 1769, died March 29, 

1859. 
Frazer, James W., born 1842, died April 19, 1845. 
Frazer, Lucy A., daugliter of W. W. and Mary, born 

January 30, 1849, died June 21, 1865. 
Frazer, Mary R., daughter of William and Mary, born 

October 20, 1854, died November 11, 1855. 
Frazer, Ezemiah, daughter of W. W. and Mary, born 

August 12, 1856, died September 25, 1858. 
Fulton, James, born 1757, died November 25, 1820. 
Fulton, Elizabeth, wife of William, born 1739, died 

July 4, 1828. 
Fulton, Margaret, born 1769, died November 22, 1816. 
Fulton, Jane, born 1800, died April 18, 1830. 
Fulton, William, born 1771, died July 28, 1837. 
Gibb, Mrs. Eleanor, born 1786, died October 30, 1852. 
Gillan, Elizabeth, wife of John, Jr., born December 13, 

1817, died June 6, 1860. 
Givler, Anna E., born February 1849, died December 

21, 1850. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 179 

Green, Ann Woods, wife of William, born 1778, died 

July 27, 1853. 
Green, Mary A., daughter of James and M, J., born 

]May,'^184o, died November 13, 1862. 
Green, Jane, wife of William, born 1809, died Jnly 28, 

1834. 
Green, Jane Mary, born March, 1810, died February 

11,1812. 
Green, John, born January 9, 1808, died February 28, 

1849. 
Green, Eliza, born August 16, 1847, died September 2, 

1850. 
Hampslier, Caroline, wife of Adam, born December 20, 

1855, died May 21, 3 876. 
Hampslier, Mamie C., born June 19, 1876, died August 

2, 1876. 

Hall, Corporal J. W., Co. F., 207th Pa. Influitry. 
Hartzell, Z. D., M. D., born 1827, died May 26, 1883. 
Hartzell, Clara, daughter of C. A., born 1854, died May 

4, 1870. 
Hartzell, Hannah, wife of C. A., born November 19, 

1827, died August 31, 1877. 
Hartzell, Roy, aged 11 months. 
Hays, Virginia A., daughter of John and Pliebe, born 

born July 8, 1849, died July 3, 1850. 
Hays Kebecca Jane, daughter of Rev. I. N. and R. H.. 

born December 24, 1852, died JMay 8, 1884. 
Hays, Caroline Nancy, daughter of Rev. I. N. and R. 

H., born March, 1856, died May 31, 1858. 
Hefiflefinger, Isabel, born January 25, 1809, died IMarch 

6^1871. 
Hemphill, Moses, born December 29, 1805, died March 

3, 1865. 



180 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Hemphill, Marjory Clark, wife of Moses, born Septem- 

11, 1810, died October 5, 1872. 
Hemphill, William J., born February 29, 1843, died 

died Nov. 10, 1865. 
Hemphill, Carrie, daughter of Moses, born 1837, died 

April 14, 1877. 
Hemphill, Jane, born 1769, died July 15, 1817. 
Hemphill, Agnes, born 1797, died August 29, 1808, 
Hemphill, J. Jack, born 1812, died May 28, 1869. 
Hemphill, Caroline, born 1803, died May 29, 1869. 
Hemphill, Martha, wife of James, daughter of William 

and Jane Strain, born October 3, 1773, died July 

30, 1830. 
Hemphill, Cinthia, wife of James, daughter of James 

and Jane Jack, born 1768, died February 19, 

1827. 
Hemphill, James, born January 10, 1770, died July 25, 

1852. 
Henderson, James and wife Margaret, no dates. 
Henderson, Anna B., daughter of James and Sarah, 

born October 21, 1800, died November 5, 1801. 
Henderson John, born 1791, died March 20, 1832. 
Henderson, Margaret Strain, wife of John, born Sep- 
tember 0, 1789, died September 1, 1866. 
Henderson, Thomas W., born 1795, died January 12, 

1875. 
Henderson, Margaret, born 1803, died December 11, 

1824. 
Henderson, Margaret, wife of ;James, daughter of John 

and Elizabeth Wiggins, born 1769, died October 

1, 1823. 
Henderson, James, born 1758, died October 17, 1834. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 181 

Henderson, Eliza W., born April 23,1797, died Septem- 
ber 13, 1861. 

Herron, John, born 1750, died October 2, 1815. 

Herron, born 1761, died October 3, 1815. 

Herron, JNIary, wife of John, daughter of James and 
Jane, Jack, bord 1753, died January 28, 1808. 

Houston, John W., born November 30, 1819, died 
October 25, 1868. 

Hunter, Dr. John, born August 12, 1785, died January 
29, 1870. 

Hunter, Jane, born February 9, 1794, died August 15, 
1855. 

Hunter, Mary, born August 7, 1820, died October 22, 
1865. 

Irvin, Samuel, born 1856, died December 19, 1859. 

Kelso, J. Anderson, Co. F, 13 Reg. Pa. Cavalry, July, 
1863, died at Belle Isle, Va., November 15, 1863. 

Kelso, Elizabeth J., wife of J. Anderson, born 1827, 
died March 19, 1884. 

Kelso, Mary, born 1795, died January 20, 1866. 

Kelso, William B., son of Be v. Alexander P., and Lou- 
isa M., born Ambala Panjab, India, INIarch 16, 
1880, died September 28, 1882. 

King, Bobert, no dates. 

Kirkpatrick, William M., born November 18, 1833, 
died February 27, 1867. 

Kirkpatrick, Hannah E., daughter of Moses, born No- 
vember 26, 1840, died August 22. 1858. 

Laing, EHzabeth, born 1778, died July 5, 1859. 

Lindsay, Thomas, born October, 1816, died October 17, 
^887. 

Lindsay, Margaret, wife ot Thomas, born January 12, 
1825, died March 14, 1865. 



182 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Lindsay, Edgar M., son of Thomas, born May 30, 1861, 

died April 25, 1862. 
Lindsay, Laura Bell, daugliterof Thomas, born October, 

1862, died August 15, 1863. 
Lindsay, Thomas E., son of Thomas, born February 9, 

1864, died February 20, 1865. 
Lindsay, Margaret, wife of Thomas, born 1812, died 

April 9, 1884. 
Linn, William, born 1731, died August 16, 1812. 
Linn, Dr. Andrew, P., born 1804, died July 5, 1844. 
Linn, James, born 1762, died May 26, 1835. 
Linn, Grizzy, born 1759, died August 1, 1839. 
Linn, William, born 1788, died A^i^ril 10, 1873. 
Linn, Mary, wife of William, born 1797, died April 13, 

1867. 
Linn, Thomas, son of William and Mary, born October 

26, 1829, died December 7, 1829. 
Linn, John G., son of William and Mary, botn 1834, 

died March 27, 1847. 
Linn, j\Iartha, daughter of William and Mary, born 

October, 1835, died August 23, 1838. 
Lusk, Martha E., born 1855, died May 2, 1859. 
Lutz, John, born 1788, died November 28, 1857. 
Lutz, Catharine, wife of John, born 1797, died February 

28, 1871. 
Maclay, Dr. Charles Templelon, born September 13, 

1812, died August 7, 1888. 
Maclay, Mary Ann, wife of Dr. Charles, daughter of 

Andrew P'razer, born August 27, 1821, died 
February 23, 1857. 
Maclay, John, born July 14, 1807, died January 1, 

1871, 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 183 



Maclay, Margaret H., born 1804, died 1894. 

Maclay, John H. 

MeCleaf, Sarah, wife of John, born March 12, 1826, 

died November, 29, 1859. 
McCuHongh, Annie, born 1850, died ]\Iay 12, 1867. 
McCullough Bethsheba, daughter of John and Sarah, 

McCune, wite of Alexander, born June 20, 1830, 

died June 15, 1852. 
McCulloeh, J. Huston, born March 5, 1822, died Jan- 
uary 4, 1894. 
McCulloeh, Sarah E. Mickey, wife of J. Huston, born 

June 9, 1825, died March 2, 1857. 
McCune, Samuel B., born April 2, 1811, died January 

7, 1882. 
McCune, Samuel, born. April 9, 1814, died February 

23, 1881. 
McCune, Abby, born December 9, 1799, died February 

10, 1870. 
McCune, James, born starch 24, 1797, died ^lay 17, 

1871. 
McCune, Rebecca, died in the 74t]i year of her age. 
McCune, Hugh, born December 5, 1815, died October 

4, 1888. 
McCune Elizabeth, born May 13, 1813, died December 

22, 1888. 
IMcCune, Joseph, born March 17, 1818, died June 12, 

1880. 
IMcCune, Hannah, born August 9, 1802, died October 

4, 1881. 
McCune, Hugh B., born October 11, 1805, died Sep- 
tember 7, 1881. 
McCune, Rebecca S., born September 23, 1836, died 



184 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

April 22, 1860. 

McCune, Ellen C, born June 30, 1834, died January 
21, 1863. 

McCune, William Craig, born June 1, 1809, died March 
26, 1877. 

McCune, Robert S., born November 19, 1794, died 
April 30, 1874. 

McCune, Jane, wife of Robert S., born June 1, 1803, 
died February 27, 1878. 

McCune, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert S., born Au- 
gust 27, 1822, died May 2, 1888. 

McCune, Jean, wife of John, born August 16, 1815, 
died March 29, 1888. 

McCune, John, died May 18, 1880. 

McCune, John, born August 19, 1769, died February 
5, 1832. 

McCune Bethsheba, wife of John, born 1776, died May 
16, 1847. 

McCune, Samuel E., born October 2, 1819, died Sep- 
tember 17, 1860. 

McCune, Eleanor, wife of Samuel, daughter of Alex- 
ander Sharp, born July 11, 1792, died April 12, 
1835. 

McCune, John, born September 12, 1815, died Novem- 
ber 7, 1874 in Philadelphia. 

]\IcCune, Mary Ellen, wife of Elder, born 1822, died 
July 14, 1854. 

McCune, John, born 1793, died May 31, 1855. 

McCune, Sarah, wife of John, born November 1798, 
died October 1, 1874. 

McCune, Rosanna, born 1805, died October 3, 1855. 

McCune, Benjamin, born 1841, died October 22, 1868. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 185 



McCoiie, Bethsheba, born June 25, 1830, died June 15, 

1852. 
McCormick, George, born November 9, 1789, died 

May 9, 1850, 
McCormick, Nancy, wife of George, born October 22, 

1790, died March 4, 1858. 
McCoy, John J., son of P. C, and M., born 1858, died 

March 1, 1862. 
McCoy, Maggie E., daughter of P. C. and M. 
McCoy, Grizelda. 
McKnight, Jane, born February 24, 1823, died January 

28, 1858. 
McKniglit, John, Sr., born 1769, died May 6, 1855. 
^IcKnight, Elizabeth, wife, of John, born August 18, 

1790, died February 3, 1865. 
McKnight, Jennie, daughter of James and Margaret, 

born June 19, 1859, died December 10, 1881. 
McKinney, Abram Smith, son of Erastus, born January, 

1869, died August 12, 1870. 
^IcNeal, Lydia, born 1779, died April 13, 1821. 
McPherson, William, son of John and Martha E., born 

September 23, 1852, died January 7, 1855. 
McVitty, Margaret E., daughter of Edward M, and 

Eliza J., born October^ 30, 1846, died April 17, 

1849. 
Means, John, born November 16, 1826, died April 19, 

1849. 
Means, J. McCoi'd, born April, 1833, died July 21, 

1833. 
Means, Joseph M., son of J. Mc, born April 1, 1828, 

died August 2, 1830. 
Means, Samuel W., son of J. Mc, born March 23, 1821, 

died July 25, 1822. 



186 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Meredith, Rebecca, wife of John, born May 5, 1764, 

died September 21, 1843. 
Movings, George, born 1736, died October 1, 1798. 
Moodey, Rev. John, born July 4, 1776, died October 

V, 1857. 
Moodey, Elizabeth G., AvifeofRev, John, born 1781, 

\lied February 2, 1854. 
Morrison, Mary, daughter of J. M. and N. B., born 

December, 1866, died March 3, 1867. 
Morrow, Rosanna Hudson, wife of R. W., born 1834, 

died March 15, 1882. 
Morrow, William, born November 1, 1827, died April 

15, 1883. 
Morrow, Col. William, born January 27, 1766, died 

June 1, 1843. 
Morrow, Mary, wife of Col. William, born November 

11, 1780, died January 5, 1855. 
Morrow, Clarence E., son of William, born April 28, 

1866, died March 2, 1869. 
Neusbaum, Moses, born September 10, 1814, died IMay 

11, 1892. 
Neusbaum Maria, wife of Moses, born February 18, 

1819, died April 13, 1891. 
Nevin, Margaret Williamson, danghter of John, born on 

the banks oi the Oetorara, Lancaster county, 

October 21, 1811, died in Shippensburg, May 2, 

1822, 
Nevin Daniel, born in N. Y., August 28, 1744, died at 

Herron's Branch, December, 1813. 
Nevin, John, born 1776, died October 19, 1829. 
Nevin, Martha M., wife of John, born 1779, died Feb- 
ruary 12, 1854. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 187 

Peebles, James, born August 2,, 18122, died May 30, 
1892. 

Peebles, Mary J., wife of James, born February 30, 
1824, died June 1, 1898. 

Pilgrim William, born January 1, 1796, died August 
11, 1877. 

Pilgrim, John, born December 25, 1810, died March 3, 
1888. 

Pilgrim, Martha, wife of John, born 1812, died March 
23, 1877. 

Pilgrim, David, born April 9, 1848, died February 28, 
1849. 

Pilgrim, Anna, born Octobei" 1(3, 1852, died J ebruar}^ 
4, 1887. 

Pilgrim, Joseph, born 1809, died April 16, 1888. 

Pomeroy, Thomas, born July 11, 1801, died January 
13, 1871. 

Pomeroy, Mary, wife of Thomas, daughter of Col. Ste- 
phen Wilson, born May 30, 1810, died Decem- 
ber 8, 1882. 

Pomeroy, Lieut. Andrew A., Co. I, 198 Reg. P. V., 
born September 10, 1841, killed March 31, 
1865, battle White Oak Road, Dinwiddle Co., 
Va. 

Pomeroy, Thomas, son of Tliom;is and Hilary, boi'u Jan- 
uary 10, 1840, died January 5, 1862. 

Pomeroy, i\lary, born October, 1798, died July 23, 
1857. 

Pomeroy, Elizabeth, daughter of Tliomas and Mary, 
born January 22, 1844, died August 25, 1848. 

Pomeroy, Anna E., daughter of Thomas and Mary, 
born June 17, 1849, died November 1, 1869. 



188 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Pomeroy, Catherine M. Smith, born 1844, died Februaiy 

12, 1865. 
Quigiey, David G., born November 13, 1830, died July 

14, 1882. 

Quigiey, John, born October 10, 1813, died September 

15, 1891. 

Quigiey, Martha J., wife of John, born August IG, 
1821, died March 25, 1884. 

Quigiey, Eleanor, wife of John, born 1826, died Feb- 
ruary 23, 1854. 

Quigiey, Joseph, born April 1, 1783, died June 8, 1868. 

Quigiey, Mary Sharpe, wife of Joseph, born 1786, died 
March 12, 1853. 

Ramsey, Maggie, daughter of H. W. and A. B., born 
August, 1885, died July 25, 1870. 

Reese, Maggie Carbaugh, wife of Cyrus, born July 28, 
1854. died February 1, 1885. 

Keed, Mary, wife of Isaac, born 1834, died May, 1881. 

Runsliaw, Jane, born June 22, 1803, died June 2, 1865. 

Runshaw, WiUiam, born 1809, died September 29, 1853. 

Runshaw, James, son of William and Margaret. 

Runsliaw^ Martha, daughter of David and Catharine, 
born December 26, 1843, died October 10, 
1844. 

Runshaw, David S., born July, 1817, died November 
25, 1862. 

Runshaw^ David S., born October 21, 1858, died jMa}^ 
2, 1896. 

Reynolds, William, born ^lay 5, 1798, died July 4, 
1873. 

Reynolds, William, boi'n August 24, 1799, died Novem- 
ber 3, 1822. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 189 



Reynolds, Elizabeth, wife of William, born November 

21, 1773, died June 26. 1848. 
Reynolds, Elizabeth, daughter of AVilliani, born Nov. 

7, 1803, died April 1, 1840. 
Reynolds, William E., son of William and Rosa, born 

June 29, 1840, died August 12, 1841. 
Reynolds, Mary C, born April, 1814, died September, 

1875. 
Robertson, Elizabeth, born 1786, died Api'il 5, 1874. 
Robertson, James, born October 2, 1789, died Novem- 
ber 5, 1866. 
Rodgers, James, born January 9, 1765, died September 

10, 1831. 
Rodgers, Jane Quigley, wife of James, born May 6, 

1774, died October 14, 1823. 
Rodgers, Eleanor, born May 13, 1814, died August 19, 

1823. 
Rodgers, Richard, born 1741, died September 16, 1801. 
Rodgers. Rachel, wife of Richard, born 1749, died April, 

1812. 
Rodgers, Denny, son of Richard, born 1785, died March 

12, 1831. 
Rodgers, William, born Deceml)er 5, 1772, died Marcli 

31, 1849. 
Rodgers, Jane, wife of William, born October 18, 1772, 

died November 1, 1850. 
Seilhammer, Lydia J,, daughter of George and Catlia- 

rine, born Fel>ruaiy 26, 1868, died J\larch 9, 

1888. 
Seilliammer, John J., Ijorn August 12, 1859, died May 

6, 1895. 
Shannon, Hannah Maclay, born ]Mav 6, 1845, died Mav 

10, 1891'). 



190 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Shannon, Annie E., born March 26, 1814, died Decem- 
ber 28, 1892. 

Shannon, Margaret, born 1811, died September 5, 1863. 

Sharp, J. E. Maclay, wife of Thomas, born 1837, died 
1882. 

Sharp, James, born July 5, 1753, died April 28, 1812. 

Sharp, Mary Sterrett, wife of James, born 1758, died 
August 27, 1833. 

Shoemaker, Elizabeth, born March 13, 1819, died Sept- 
ember 19, 1844. 

Skiles, Martha A., wife of Henderson, born April 1, 
1828, died March 13, 1859. 

Skiles, Edwin, son of Hendei'son, born June 4, 1855, 
died August 6, 1855. 

Smith, Sergeant Anson, Co. F., 13 Pa., Cavalry. 

Smith Thomas, born 1811, died July 21, 1816. 

Smith, Margaret, born 1794, died April 22, 1828, 

Smith, Anson S., born 1805, died September 19, 1843. 

Smith, John, born 1766, died November 17, 1836, 

Smith, Elizabeth, born 1772, died February 7, 1854. 

Smith, Peter, born September 17, 1805, died May 19, 
1873. 

Smith, Elizabeth, born Janu;uy 16, 1812, died Novem- 
ber 1, 1889. 

Smith, Samuel J,, born March 4, 1807, died April 1, 
1865. 

Smith, Mary, wife of Siunuel, born October 3, 1821, 
died December 10, 1887. 

Smith, Jane, born 1796, died January 21, 1870. 

Smith, Mary, born November 24, 1797, died November 
2, 1874. 

Smith, Maria, born March 17, 1809, died December 7, 
1884. 



PKESliYTERIAN CHURCH, 11)1 



8inith, Samuel Irwin, son of Samuel I. and Mary J. 

born April, 1855, died February 19, 1859. 
Snoddy, Mabel, born 1706, died September 3, 1824. 
Speer, Jane S., born 180(3, died February 10, 1879. 
Speer, William, born 1798, died July 26, 1873. 
Speer, Jane W., born March 10, 1799, died June 26, 

1875. 
Speer, David, born 1791, died April 4, 1858. 
Speer, James, born 1828, died January 27, 1866. 
Speer, Hannah, born March 19, 1833, died May 19, 

1873. 
Steidler, Harry C, son of James, born August 1895, 

died November 9, 1895. 
Stevick, Simon G., born February 28, 1863, died Sept- 
ember 13, 1888. 
Stover, Frank, son of E,., and M., born April 26, 1865, 

died September 3, 186(>. 
Stumbaugh, Sarah, born May 5, 1814, died May 27, 

1894. 
Stumbaugh, Jacob, born 1806, died March 12, 1850. 
Stump, Annie Maggie, born July 1868, died September 

17, 1869. 
Summerville, John, born 1819. died 1853. 
Summerville, Nancy A., wife of Jolm, born 1819, died 

1890. 
Summerville, Jeanette, daughter of John, l)orn 1858, 

died 1862. 
Summerville, David, born 1816, died 1876. 
Summerville, Jeanette, died 1871. 
Summerville, Mary A., died 1858. 
Taylor, Samuel, born November 1819, died January 20, 

1889. 



192 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Taylor, Mary, wife of Samuel, born May 23, 1824, 

died April 30, 1876, 
Thompson, David, born 1788, died October, 1818. 
Thompson, Elizabeth, wife of David, born 1791, died 

May, 1817, 
Thompson, Annie, daughter of David, born 1811, died 

September 4, 1823. 
Thompson, Anna, twin of A. A. and S. R., born March 

7, 1871, died June 9. 1871. 
Thompson, Leah McCance, daughter of David and Eliz- 
abeth, aged 1 year. 
Walker, Eliza Wiley, wife of William B., born 1810, 

died January 12, 1842. 
Walker, John, born 183(3, died July 1, 1859. 
Wallace, Jane, wife of John, daughter of John andBeth- 

sheba McCune, born 1797, died February 10, 

1849. 
Wallace, Nancy Sharp, wife of Dr. Hamilton Wallace. 
Warren, Samuel, born June (3, 1831, died February 10, 

1895, Co. K., 101st Reg't, Pa., Vol. Inf t. ' 
Warren, Amanda Jane, daughter of Samuel and Mary, D., 

born September 1857, died November 12, 1883. 
Warren, Emma, wife of Henry, born 1862, died May 1, 

1889. 
Wherry, David, born 1815, died Se])tember 15, 1872. 
MTierry, Elizabeth, born July 22, 1812, died August 

^23, 1888. 
Wherry, inflmt son of Samuel and Mary, born July 20, 

1843. 
Wlierry, Samuel, born July 22, 1804, died April 2, 

18()1. 
Wherry, Margaret, born October 7, 1811, died May 23, 

1877. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



193 



Wherry, William Elder, born December 10, 1847, died 

February 22, 1853. 
Woodbiiru, Mattliew,born 1768, died July 26, 1830. 
Woodburu Catharine, born 1775, died July 20, 1816. 
Woodburn, Mary, born 1809, died July 11, 1885. 
Woodburn, James, born 1806, died November 3, 1883. 
Wylie, Jane McCune, wife of Kev. S. S., born 1844, 

died 1897. 




194 THE MIDDLE SPKING 

TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS. 



LOWER GRAVEYARD. 



Barklow, Absalom, born May 4, 1785, died May 10, 

1842. 
Beattie, James, born 1752, died January 11, 1838. 
Beattie, Mary, born 1765, died October 3, 1823. 
Brackenridge, Sr., John, born 1771, died July 5, 1851. 
Brackenridge, Nancy, wife of John, daughter of James 

Colwell, born December 1, 1776, died January 

10, 1803. 
Brackenridge, James Colwell, son of John and Nancy. 
Brackenridge, ]\Iary A., daughter of John and Nancy. 
Brackenridge, infant, son of John and Nancy. 
Brackenridge, John, son of John and Margaret, born 

February 22, 1809, died jNIarch 9, 1809. 
Brackenridge, Mary Ann, born 1809, died November 

21, 1837. 
Brackenridge, Margaret, wife of John, born 1782, dijd 

May 26, 1850. 
Brackenridge, Joseph, son of John and Margaret, born 

December 30, 1810, died June 27, 1838. 
Brackenridge, James, son of John and Margaret, born 

December 18, 1805, died September 5, 1838. 
Brackenridge, Anna M., daughterof John and Margaret, 

born October 26, 1835, died November 6, 1846. 
Brackenridge, Jemima, daughter of John and Margaret, 

born April 8, 1839, died April 13, 1860. 
Brackenridge, Wm. Finley, son of John and Marga- 
ret, born November 1, 1812, died November 24, 

1852. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 195 

Brackenridge, Elizabeth, died September 7, 1856. 
Brackenridge, Maiy J., wife of John, daughter of Sam- 
uel Swansey, J]sq., born 1814, died November 

21, 1837. 
Clark, Mary, died June 23, 1851. 
(■lark, Margaret, no dates. 

Cohvell, John, born 1768, died January 28, 1831. 
Cohvell, Nancy, wife of John, daughter of Hugh and 

Elizabeth Smith, born 1785, died July 4, 1818. 
Colwell, Martlia, relict of John, daughter of David and 

Jane King, born Jan. 1, 1775, died December 

3, 1856. 
Colwell, Keziah, wife of John, daughter of Samuel and 

Mary Cox, born July 12, 1783, died May 15, 

1804. 
(yolwell, Agnes, wife of the late James, born 1739, died 

August 5, 1804. 
Colwell, Samuel. 

CoIwtII, Nancy, born December 1, 1776. 
Cooper, Rev. Robert, born 1732, died April 5, 1805. 
Cooper, Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Robert born 1743, died 
Cox, Samuel, born 1752, died April 12, 1831. 

1829. 
Cox, Ann, wife of Samuel, born 1756, died March 14, 

1835. 
Cox, Mar}^ wife of Samuel, daughter of Thomas and 

Catharine McComb, born 1769, died January 

18, 1810. 
Cox, John, Sr., born June 17, 1781, died March 6, 1854. 
Cox, Martha, born February 18, 1785, died August 24, 

1858. 
Cox, Susan, daughter of William and Jane, born 1853, 

died September 13, 1856. 



196 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Cox, Catharine Elliott, daughter of Samuel and Mary, 

born 1787, died October 9, 1818. 
Cox, Martha M., born June 2, 1858, died December 10, 

1860. 
Cummins, Thomas, born 1760. died August 8, 1810. 
Dine, Jacob, son ol Philip and Isabella, born 1843, died 

September 10, I860. 
Duncan, William, no dates. 
Duncan, Hugh M„ born August 12, 1823, died at Og- 

densburg, N. Y., August 18, 1865. 
Duncan, Isabella, born April 18, 1797, died January 

25, 1872. 
Duncan, Hannah J., daughter of William and Isabella, 

born February 1, 1830, died August 26, 1833. 
Edgar, Samuel Charles, son of David and Mary, of 

Baltimore, born 1814, died December 22, 1841. 
Hays, David, born 1737, died July 26, 1809. 
Hays, Martha Wilson, wife of David, born 1745, died 

February 11, 1817, 
Hays, Wilson, born 1779, died November 11, 1832. 
Hays, James, born 1786, died October 20, 1858. 
Herron, James, born 1754, died April 24, 1829. 
Herron, Margaret, wife of James, born 1766, died Sep- 
tember 16, 1801, 
Johnston, George, born September 25, 1799, died May 

23, 1884. 
Johnston, Sarah, wife of George, l)orn January 6, 1806, 

died March 31. 1859. 
Johnston, Rebecca, born August 30, 1800, died Novem- 
ber 20, 1881. 
Johnston, Benjamin, born 1760, died September 11, 

1833. ' 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 197 

Johnston, Jane, wife of Benjamin, born 17G5, died 
February 25, 1830. 

Johnston, Sarah, born January 11, 1790, died May 21, 
1878. 

JoJmston, Maj. Joseph, born October 11, 1810, died 
February 28, 1860. 

Johnston, John, born March 11, 1793, died June 10, 
1846. 

Johnston, Elizabeth Brackenridge, wife of John, born 
May 26, 1800, died September 7, 1856. 

Johnston, Robert, born 1804, died March 25, 1841. 

Johnston, Margaret, wife of James, born Jan 5, 1804, 
died May 5, 1865. 

Johnston, Samuel, born 1727, died April 4, 1777. 

Johnston, Mary, wife of Samuel, born 1728, died No- 
vember 5, 1794. 

Kearsley, Capt. Samuel, born 1749, died March 22, 
1830. 

Maclay, David, Esq., born 1762, died February 20, 
1839. 

Maclay. This grave contains the remains of Eleanor, 
daughter of Hon. Sanuiel Maclay, of North- 
umberland county, Pa., and wife of David Ma- 
clay, born 1777, died iipril 4, 1802. 

Maclay, Eleanor wife of David, daughter of John 
Herron, Esq., born 1785, died February 23, 
1825. 

"Death gives us more than was in Eden lost." 

Maclay, Margaret, born 1790, died 1871. 

Maclay, Samuel, born 1766, died 1843. 

Maclay, John, son of Samuel, born 1815, died 1892. 

IMaclay, Samuel O., son of Samuel D., born May 30, 



198 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

1875, died January 28, 1878. 

Mahon, David, born 1744, died October o, 1813. 

Malion, Sarah, wife of David, born 1746, died Decem- 
ber 23, 1834. 

McCune, Robert, born 1795, died October 30, 1857. 

McCune, Elizabeth, wife of Robert, born 1794, died 
December 11, 1863. 

McCune, infant, daughter of Robert, died iVpril 20, 
1836. 

McCune, infant, daughter of Robert, died January 10, 
1831. 

McCune. infant, son of Robert, died March 10, 1821. 

McCune, infant, daughter of Robert, died August 4 
1834. 

McCune, Robert, born 1753, died August 29, 1816. 

IMcCune, Mary, wife of Robert, born 1762, died Fel)- 
ruary 4, 1837. 

xMcCune, W, A., Company 130 Penna. Infantry. 

McKee, James, Jr., died January 13, 1839. 

]\Iorrow, Samuel, born 1800, died Noveml)er 10, 1868, 

Patterson, Francis G., l)orn December 1, 1784, died 
January 21, 1850. 

Patterson, Eleanor Peebles, wife of Francis, l)orn August 
7, 1803, died March 13, 1843. 

Quigley, James, died 1782. Ensign in Colonial ser- 
vice, March 25, 1756, in Rev. John Steele's Com- 
pany of Cumberland County Rangers. Private 
in Revolutionary service, in Colonel Robert Ad- 
ams' Company, Sixth Battalion. 

Quigley, Jeanette, wife of James, 

Quigley, Robert, son of James and Jeanette, born 1744, 
died September 1, 1815. In Revolutionary 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 199 

service, Lieuenant, Seventh Company, First Bat- 

talicn, Cumberland County Militia. 
Quigley, Eleanor Jacobs, wife of Robert, born 1745, 

died July 9, 1821. 
Renshaw, Isabella, wife of Simpson, born December 16, 

1808, died July 6, 1841. 
Reynolds, John, Esq., born 1749, died October 20, 

1789. 
This modest stone, what few vain marbles can. 
May truly say. Here lies an honest man. 
Ritchey, John, born January 7, 1766, died February 4, 

^1814. 
Ritchey, Mary, consort of John, born March, 1765, died 

October 26, 1844. 
Ritchey, Jane, born 1806, died January 11, 1862. 
Rippey, Samuel, Sr.. born 1713, died August 22, 1791. 
Rippey, Isabella, died March 10, 1778. 
Searight, Sarah Catharine, born 1852, died February 

12, 1853. 
Snoddy, James, born February 17. 1814, died March 

^24, 1885. 
Snoddy, Margaret, born June 21, 1791, died August 3, 

1865, 
Sannnerville, David, born 1749, died September, 1794. 
Summerville, Martha, wife of David, born 1749, died 

May 3, 1821. 
Summerville, Margaret, daughter of David, born 1782, 

died January 23, 1847. 
Swansey, Samuel, born 1782, died July 30, 1836. 
Wright, George, Sr., born 1714, died March 26, 1779. 
Wright, Susanna, wife of George, born 1726, died De- 
cember 14, 1781. 



200 



THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Wright, Susanna, daughter of George, Jr., born Novem- 
ber 13, 1785, died November 19, 1786. 

Wright, George, son of George, Jr., born October 22, 
1779, died September 16, 1782. 

Wright, William, son of George, Jr., born June 23, 
1787, died September 8, 1792. 




PRESBYTERIAN (CHURCH. 2^1 

TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS. 



HANNA S GRAVEYARD. 



Barr, John L., son of Robert L., and Mary A„ born 

18G3, died December 1, 18G4. 
Barr, William, son of Robert L., and Mary A„ boi-n 

May 1859, died June 13, 1865. 
Barr, Maggie B., daughter of Robert L., and Mary A., 

born 1866, died February 11, 1870. 
Beaty, Elizabeth, A^ife of John, daughter of Samuel 

Wherry, born 1777, died October 19, 1815. 
Beaty, Elizabeth E., born January 4, 1809, died No- 
vember 25, 1863. 
Cooper, Samuel K. born 1811, died 1836. 
Delhi, Esther, wife of Peter, born May 1778, died June 

5, 1866. 
Elliott, John, born December 29, 1797, died February 

15, 1871, 
Elliott, Elizabeth, wife of John, born 1809, died April 

2, 1867. 
Foughender, Mary H., wife of Wm., born March 9, 

1835, died August 27, 1866. 
Hanna, William, born 1803, died July 7, 1861. 
Hanna, Martha, wife of William, born January 7, 

1810, died January 30, 1840. 
Hanna, Jane, wife of William, born March 1, 1808, 

died April 14, 1877. 
Hanna, Martha E., born January 19, 1840, died De- 
cember 5, 1846. 
Hanna. Samuel, born October 27, 1833, August 21, 

1850. 



202 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Hanna, John, born 1845, died December 13, 1846. 

Holmes, Susan, born December 17, 1779, diod Febru- 
ary 14, 1850. 

Kelly, H. J. No dates. 

Kerr, Paul, born 1767, died November 28, 1846. 

Laughlin, Robert B., born February 25, 1803, died 
August 8, 1868. 

All you that come my grave to see, 
Prepare for death and follow me. 
Prepare for death make no delay, 
For suddenly I was called away. 

Laughlin, Maria, wife of Kobert B., born March 5, 
1802, died November 17, 1879. 

Laughlin, John, born November 13, 1772, died June 7, 
1859. 

Laughlin, Mary, wife of John, born June 2, 1782, died 
July 7, 1832. 

Laughlin, Margaret, born April 12, 1811, died Feb- 
ruary 7, 1888. 

Martin, Ann, born April 1, 1782, died JMarch 2, 1863. 

Maxwell, Margaret, born 1819, died January 1, 1850. 

McElhinny, James, born iVugust 16, 1791, died Febru- 
ary 15, 1870. 
Our Father has gone to mansions of rest 

From a region of sorrow and pain. 

To the radiant band by the deity blest 

Where he never can suffer again. 

McElhinny, Elizabeth, wife of James, born April 15, 
1802, died November 16, 1881. 
Sweetly sleeping. 

McEIwain, William G., born July 3, 1813, died August 
13, 1870. 

McEIwain, Margaret, born 1821, died March 13, 1859. 

McEIwain, William B., born 1794, died August 8,1874. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 203 



McElwain, Susanna, wife of Willim B., born 1797, died 

May 2, 18B9. 
McElwain, Elizabetli, wife of William B., born October 

1809, died May 26, 1853. 
McElwain, Ellen, daughter of William B. and Susanna, 

born February 6, 1833, died December 23, 1860. 
McKinney, David, Sr., born 1746, died March 19, 1819, 
McKinney, Jennet Smith, wife of David, born 1752, 

died Ajiril 11, 1843. 
McKinney, William Keynolds, son of Abram S. and 

Margaret R., born 1831, died January 1, 1836. 
Miller, Hendry G., born August 15, 1813, died May 2, 

1871. 
Miller, Elizabeth, wife of H. G., born April, 1819, died 

September 7, 1874. 
Mitchel, Jolm, born Januai-v 25, 1825, died January, 

17, 1894. 
Mitchel, M-dYY, born April, 1827, died May 21, 1897. 
Mitchel, William, born 1776, died September 29, 1854. 
Mitchel, Mary, wife of William, born December 24, 

1801, died August 28, 1877. 
Mitchel, Clarence, son of John and Clementina, born 

November 18, 1892, died January 10, 1894. 
Montgomery, Ellen, born June 11, 1789, died Decem- 

^ her 15, 1864, 
Morrett, Mary J., wife of William, born 1829, died Feb- 
ruary 17, 1892. 

We miss thee from our home dear mother 

We miss thee, from thy place, 

A shadow^ o'er our life is cast, 

We miss the sunshine of thy face. 

Mowrey, David, born April 13, 1824, died January 27, 

1862. 



204 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Mowrey, Clarissa, daughter of David and Mary J., born 

May 1852, died June 21, 1853. 
Mowrey, Joseph E,, son of David and Mary J., born 

1857, died October 4, 1862. 
Mowrey, Jane M., born 1828, died March 2(3, 1888. 
New-comer, Sarah A. Elliott, wife of Benjamin, born 

1844, died May 20, 1874. 
Peebles, William, born 1781, died October 22, 1830. 
Peebles, Eleanor, wife of William, born 1789, died Sep- 
tember 14, 1859. 
Peebles, William D., son of William and Eleanor, born 

1821, died April 13, 1837. 
Peebles, Benjamin A., born October 28, 1825, died 

July 4, 1877. 

Death is certain, the hour unseen. 
Peebles, Martha Barr, wife of B. A., born December 4, 

1823, died August 1, 1874. 
Peebles, William A., son of B. A. and M., born 1857, 

died April G, 1858. 
Peebles, Martha Ellen, daughter of of B. A., and M., 

born 1859, died December 22, 1863. 
Peebles, Hugh Barr, son of B. A., and M., born 1862, 

died October 1, 1865. 
Peebles, Hugli B., son of R., and S. E., 1862. 
Peebles, Martha Bell, daughter of R. and S, E., 1863. 
Peebles, William, son of R., and S. E., 1864. 
Peebles, Sarah Ellen, wife of Robert, born 1828, died 

August 1, 1864. 
Pislee, Peter, born January 1801, died March 28, 1853. 
Pislee, Elizabeth, wife of Peter, born October 1803, 

died December 10, 1847. 
Pislee, James, son of C, and Catharine, born January 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 205 

1832, January 2G, 1833. 
Pislee, Franklin, P., son of C. R., and B. H., born 

May 27, 1853, died August 3, 1853. 
Pislee, Horace B., son of C. R., and B. H., born Feb- 
ruary 12, 1856, died July 3, 1856. 
Reinhardt, Augusta Louisa, born July 17, 1829, died 

November 29, 1864. 
Reinhardt, Sophia H., born 1825, died October 15, 

1879. 
Reinhardt, Ernst Edward, born October 21, 1831, died 

February 17, 1872. 
Smith, Jane Nicholson Cooper, wife of John, born 

1807, died 1835. 
Smith, Abram W., born 1806, died January 20, 1848. 
Smith, Dr. D, R., born 1812, died May 7, 1864. 

Keqiiiescat In Pace. 
Smith, Harvey, son of Dr. D. R., born 1853, died 

March 28, 1870. 
Smith, Jacob, born 1763. died May 26, 1825. 
Smith, Eleanor, wife of Jacob, born 1782, died July 7, 

1833. 
Wagoner, William, born 1792, died May 16, 1853. 
Wherry John, born 1806, died March 14, 1835. 
Wherry John, born 1777, died April 14, 1828. 
Wherry, Margaret, wife of John, born 1775, died June 

26, 1837. 
Wherry Samuel, born 1746, died January 21, 1826. 



206 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

MIDDLE SPRING IN THE REVOLUTION. 



The Scotch Irish are justly credited with beino; the first 
to respond to the call for defenders of the liberties of the 
colonies against the aggression of the British. Not only 
did they respond promptly to the call, but it was largely 
through their instrumentality that the call was made. 
The characteristic foresight and agg-ressiveness of the 
race early recognized the interference of the mother 
country, and expeditiously gathered themselves together 
in public meetings to express their indignation and offer 
their protests against the encroachments of those, who 
were assuming unjust rights and responsibilities. 

The most noted of these was the Mechlenburg Decla- 
ration, in which the citizens of Meclilenburg County, 
North Carolina, on May 31, 1775, absolved themselves 
from all allegiance to the British crown, declaring them- 
selves a free and independent people, under no control 
but the power of God and general government of Con- 



Then we have the Westmoreland County resolutions, 
adopted May 16, 1775, beai-ing testimony against the 
arbitrary laws of Parliament. The action of these 
people anticipated the united action of the colonies in 
Philadelphia, more than a year. While the fires of 
patriotism Avere being kindled in different parts of the 
country, the inhabitants of Cumberland County were 
up in arms to defend their rights. 

On July 12, 1774, nearly a year before the Mechlen- 
])urg Declaration, the citizens of the different townships 
of Cumberland County, assembled in council in the 
First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, of which the 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 207 

venerable John Steel was pastor, for council and deliber- 
ation on the stirring events of the times. This assembly 
solemnly declared that the inhabitants of Boston, by the 
enforcement of the obnoxious Port Bill, "'are suffering 
in the common cause of all the colonies." Robert Me- 
gaw, James Wilson and William Irvine were appointed 
deputies from the county, to meet other deputies from 
the several counties of Pennsylvania, to concert measures, 
pre})nratory to the general Congress. The deputies left 
for Philadelphia, where the committee was to meet, on 
the loth of the same month. 

We find the names of these three members from 
Cumberland County registered as taking part in the 
proceedings of the provincial committee, holding their 
meeting in Carpenter's Hall, while the Assembly was 
deliberating in the State House. The important matter 
resting on the Provincial Committee, was, to impress 
Assembly with the necessity of calling a congress of 
deputies from all the colonies, and to make the appoint- 
ment of such from Pennsylvania at once. The Assem- 
bly heeded this importunate plea, and as a consequence 
the first Continental Congress was held in Carpenter's 
Hall, Philadelphia, September 5, 1774. Cumberland 
County was again represented b}^ nine deputies at the 
Provincial Council in 1776. 

The importi'.nt |)lace occupied Ijy Middle Spring, and 
her influence in the valley at that time, can be judged 
from the fact, that three of those nine deputies were 
members of her communion. These staunch defenders, 
John Maclay, Hugh McCormiek and Hugh Alexander, 
declared that the Scotch Irish of the Cumberland Val- 
ley had one voice for the union of the separated colo- 



208 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



iiies and they helped by personal contact and patriotic 
address, to lead the thirteen colonies, by their represen- 
tatives, to unanimously adopt the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence on July 4, 1776. 

The cause of civil and religious liberty in the hearts 
of our ancestors, was greatly strengthened and directed 
by an able, self-denying ministry. This is especially 
true of the Presbyterian clergymen of the Cumberland 
Valley. 

Rev. John Steel, of Carlisle, who, in his earlier days 
had been a leader in the expeditions against the Indians, 
now became Captain of the first company that marched 
from the Valley after the Declaration of Independence. 

Rev. John King, pastor of the Presbyterian Church 
at Mercersburg, said to the men of his charge, who were 
about to enter the conflict, "The cause of iVmerican In- 
dependence and Liberty, which has now called you to 
go forth to the scene of action, is indeed a cause in 
which it will be glorious to conquer and honorable to 
die." After urging his men to duty, he accompanied 
them as chaplain. 

Rev John Craighead, whose peerless eloquence and 
soul stirring appeals moved his people to go to the field 
of strife, placed himself at their head as captain, per- 
forming also the double duty of chaplain. 

Rev. William Linn, was appointed chaplain of the 
Fifth and Sixth Penna. Battalions, February 15, 1776. 
Shortly after the Battalion was ordered to Canada, he 
resigned and accepted a call, April 9, 1777, to the Big 
Spring church, at Newville. 

Rev. Robert Cooper, then pastor of the Middle 
Spring church, entered into the struggle with his whole 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 209 

soul, believing with his ministerial brethren, that the 
cause of American independence was a divine cause, 
that in the struggle, not only the rights of men, but 
the sacred interests of Christ's Kingdom were involved. 
It may be that the intense love of country shown by 
Dr. Cooper, was pai'th^ due to the fact that he was in 
Philadelphia, as moderator of the synods of New York 
and PMladelpliia, in May 1776, and while there, be- 
came surcharged with patriotism, and from tho fulness 
of his heart, poured it forth upon his people on liis re- 
turn, until they, catching his spirit, resolved to enlist in 
the defense of their beloved land. Certain it is that no 
church in this valley, or elsewliere, that we know of, 
sent as many men into the patriot army as the Middle 
Spring churcli, and well may she be proud of her rec- 
ord. Brave were the hearts of the noble Scotch-Irish 
defenders of their country, and sacred are the shades, 
beneath which their consecrated dust awaits the resur- 
I'ection morning, when tliey shall answer the last roll 



ca 



The following persons took part in the Revolutionary 
war and were memliers and adherents of the Middle 
Spring church. The companies in which they served 
are given as fully as could be ascertained on searching 
the public records. The military titles borne by some, 
were no doubt conferred after the war, perhaps from 
military service, many appearing on the rolls as privates 
in the war, Avho in after years were given a title. 
Anderson, William, Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series, 

Vol. 2.3, pages 254 and 2(58. 
Barr, William, Private in Capt. Robert Shannon's Co., 



210 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series, Vol. 23, 
pages 614 and 667. 

Blythe, Benjamin, Lieut, of Capt. Samuel Blythe's 
Company of Rangers on the frontier in 1780, 
MSS. Archives of Pennsylvania, 

Blythe, Samuel, Captain of a company of Rangers in 
1780, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, Col. 
15, page 764. 
"^rackenridge, Samuel, Private in Capt. Thomas Askey's 
Co., Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, Vol. 15, 
page 564. 

Brady, Samuel, Captain Eighth Pennsylvania Continen- 
tal Line, Pennsylvania in Revolution, Vol. 1, 
page 650, 

Brady, Joseph, Captain Seventh Company, First Bat- 
talion, Cumherland County Militia, Pennsylva- 
nia Archives, 2nd series. Vol. 14, page 421. 

Campbell, Francis, Private in Capt. James A. Wilson's 
Co., Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion, Pennsylvania 
in Revolution, Vol. 1, page 185. 

Clark, Robert, Private in Capt. Alexander Peebles' Co., 
Fourth Class Associators, Pennsylvania Archives, 
2nd series, Vol. 15, page 580. 

Cox, Samuel, served in Pennsylvania Line, rank not 
given, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, Vol. 
13, page 45. 

Culbertson, Robert, Lieut. Colonel First Battalion, 
Cumberland County Associators, Pennsylvania 
Archives, 2nd series, Vol. 14, page 392. 

Duncan, David, Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series. Vol. 
23, page 793. 

Dunlap, James, Colonel First Battalion, Cumberland 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURC'H. 211 

County Militia, Peunsylvania Archives, 2nd 

series, Vol. 15, page 563. 
Henderson, Matthew, Captain in Pennsylvania Line, 

Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series. Vol. 10, 

page 691. 
Herron, William, Private in Capt. Alexander Peebles' 

Co., Fourth Class Associators, Pennsylvania 

Archives, 2nd series, Vol. 15, page 580. 
Herron, James, Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series. Vol. 

23, pages 269 and 633. 
Herron, David, Private, Peunsylvania Archives, 3rd 

series. Vol. 23, page 289. 
Herron, John, served in Pennsylvania Line, rank not 

given, Penns^dvania Archives, 3rd series, Vol. 

23, pages 636 and 656. 
Johnston, John, Private in Capt. Rippey's Co., Sixth 

Battalion, Pennsylvania in Revolution, Vol. 1, 

page 18L 
Kearsley, Samuel, promoted February 18, 1778, Captain 

in Eleventh Continental Line, Pennsylvania in 

Revolution, Vol. 2, page 46. 
Leepei', Charles, Captain in Second Battalion, Cumber- 
land County Militia, commanded by Col. John 

Davis, killed at Crooked Billet, Pennsylvania 

Archives, 2nd series, Vol. 14, page 398. 
Lowry, James, Private in Capt. Abraham Smith's Co., 

Pennsylvania in Revolution, Vol. 1, page 172. 
Maclay, John, Private in Capt. Jose})h Brady's Co., 

Seventh Class Associators, commanded by Col. 

Watts, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series. Vol. 

15, page 596.' 
Maclay, Charles, Captain Eighth Co., First Battalion 



212 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Associators, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, 
Vol. 14, page 395. 

McComb, Thomas, Sergeant, Pennsylvania in Revolu- 
tion, Volume 1, page 218. 

Mahon, David, Private in Capt. Charles Maclay's Co., 
Eighth Class Associators, Pennsylvania Archives, 
2nd series. Vol. 15, page 602. 

Mahon, Archibald, Private in Capt. Charles Maclay's 
Co., Eighth Class Associators, Pennsylvania Ar- 
chives, 2nd series. Vol. 15, page 602, 

McClelland, Thomas, Private in Capt. Charles Maclay's 
Co., Eighth Class Associators, Pennsylvania Ar- 
chives, 2nd series. Vol. 15, page 602. 

McCune, John, Private in Capt. Chai-les Maclay's Co., 
Eighth Class Associators, Pennsylvania Archives, 
Vol. 15, page 602. 

McCune, Samuel, Private in Capt. John Campbell's 
Co., Cumberland County Militia, called into ser- 
vice, January 5, 1778, Pennsylvania Archives, 
3rd series. Vol. 23, pages 633 and 783. 

McCune, James, served in Pennsylvania Line, rank not 
given, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, Vol. 
13, page 156. 

INIcKee, James, Private in Lieut. Daniel Smith's Co., in 
service January 1778, Pennsylvania Archives, 
2nd series. Vol. 15, page 595. 

McKee, John, Private in First Battalion, Cumberland 
County Militia, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd 
series. Vol. 15, page 564. 

McKnight, John, Private Seventh Co., Eighth Battal- 
ion, Cumberland County Militia, in service 1780, 
Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series. Vol. 23, 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 213 

pages 686, 720, 757. 

McKniglit, David, Lieutenant First Regiment, Pennsyl- 
vania Line, commanded by Col. Daniel Broad- 
liead, Pennsylvania in Revolution, Vol. 1, 
page 329. 

JMcKensey, (McKinney) Andrew, Sergeant in Capt. 
Matthew Scott's Co., State Regiment of Foot, 
Pennsylvania in Revolution, Vol. 1. page 266. 

McKinne}^, Joseph, Private in Capt. Alexander McCoy's 
Co., Cumberland County Militia, Pennsylvania 
Archives, 2nd series. Vol. 15, page 567, 

JMontgomery, Samuel, Lieutenant in Capt. Samuel 
Hay's Co., Second Battalion, Pennsylvania in 
Revolution, Vol. 1, page 174. 

Miller, Isaac, First Lieutenant, Eighth Co., First Bat- 
talion Associators, commanded by Col. James 
Dunlap, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series. 
Vol. 14, page 395. 

Patterson, Andrew, Private in Captain Thomas Ken- 
nedy's Co., Cum])erland County Militia, called 
in service July 28, 1777, Pennsylvania Archives, 
2nd series. Vol. 1, page 570. 

Peebles, Alexander, Captain, Pennsylvania Archives, 
2nd series. Vol. 1, page 579. 

Peebles, William, ai)pointed Captain March 9, 1776, 
died in 1776, Pennsylvania in Revolution, Vol. 
1, page 220. 

Peebles, Robert, Lieutenant 3rd Pennsylvania Conti- 
nental Line, mustered out as Captain April 15, 
1779, Pennsylvania in Revolution, Vol. 1, page 
453. 

Quigley, James, in Colonial service, commissioned En- 

K I s '^^X F \\ K 'i^i 0\ 1 - ^- 



214 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

sign March 25, 1756, in Rev. John Steele's Co., 
of Cumberland County Rangers, MSS. Archives 
of Pennsylvania. In Revolutionary service. 
Private in Col. Robert Adams' Co., Sixth Bat- 
talion, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, Vol. 
• 10, page 190. 

Quigley, Robert, Lieutenant, Seventh Co., First Battal- 
lion, Cumberland County Militia, Pennsylvania 
Archives, 2nd series, Vol. 14, page 395. 

Quigley, Samuel, Private in Capt. Thomas Askey's Co., 
First Battalion Associators, Pennsylvania Ar- 
chives, 2d series. Vol. 15, page 563. 

Reynolds, William, Ensign, Pennsylvania Archives, 3d 
series, Vol. 23, page 271. 

Rippey, William, commissioned January 9, 1776, Cap- 
tain of Sixth Penna. Battalion, Continental Line, 
Penna. in Revolution, Vol. 1, page 179. 

Rippey, Samuel, Private in Capt. Alexander Peebles' 
Company, Sixth Class Associators, Pennsylvania 
Archives. 2d series. Vol. 13, page 580. 

Scott, James, Private in Capt. Andrew Fanier's Co., 
Cumberland County, ]\Iilitia, called into service 
May 1, 1780, Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series, 
Vol 23, page 681.^ 

Scott, Matthew, promoted Captain, April 18, 1777, 
State Regiment of Foot, Pennsylvania in Revo- 
lution, Vol. 1. page 266. 

Scott, William, appointed February 11, 1776, Sergeant 
in Capt. Abraham Smith's Co., Pennsylvania in 
Revolution, Vol. 1, page 171. 

Smith, Abiaham, Captain Sixth Battalion, Pennsylvania 
Line, Pennsylvania in Revolution, Vol. 1, 
page 171. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 215 



Sterritt, Alexander, Private in Capt. Alexander Peebles' 
Co., Fourth Class Associators, Pennsylvania Ar- 
chives, 2nd series. Vol. 15, page 580. 

Strain, William, Captain Fifth Co., Sixth Battalion As- 
sociators, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, 
Vol. 14, page 464. 

Thompson, John, Private in Capt. Jeremiah Talbot's 
Co., Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion, Pennsylvania 
in Revolution, Vol. 1, page 179. 

Trimble, William, Private in Capt. Alexander Peebles' 
Co., Fourth Class Associators, Pennsylvania Ar- 
chives, 2nd series. Vol. 15, page 580. 

Walker, Samuel, Second Lieutenant in Capt. Thomas 
Askey's Co., First Battalion Associators, Penn- 
sylvania Archives, 2nd series. Vol. 15, page 563. 

Wherry, Samuel, Private in Capt. Noah Abraham's Co., 
Associators, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series. 
Vol. 15, page 575. 

White, John, Private in Capt. Charles Maclay's Co., 
Eighth Class Associators, Pennsylvania Archives 
2nd series, Vol. 15, page 602. 

Wills, David, Private in Capt. Charles Maclay's Co., 
Eighth Class Associators, Pennsylvania Archives, 
2nd series, Vol. 15, page 602. 

Woods, John, Private in Capt. Noah Abraham's Co., 
Associators, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, 
Vol. 15, page 574. 

Soldier sleep, thy tranquil brow 
Needs no earth crowned glories now. 
Slumber on, thy rest be sweet. 
Immortal fame thy winding sheet. 



216 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

HOPEWELL ACADEMY. 



Hopewell Academy, nlthough not an institution of 
the Middle Spring Church, was so closely connected with 
it, and exerted such a great influence in the enligliten- 
ment of the generation in which it flourished, that a his- 
tory of the church would be imcomplete without refer- 
ence to it. 

This institution, as far as can be ascertained, was es- 
tablished by John Cooper In the fall of the year 1810, 
and took its name from the township in which it was 
located. 

The school building was an oblong structure, of hewn 
logs, with a single entrance, sliding windows, and a gable 
projecting over the end towards the road, unsupported 
1)y pillars. It stood near the mansion house of the farm 
to which it belonged, on the east. The road from Shl]v 
pensburg to Newburg at that time, ran directly by the 
academy building. 

John Cooper, the founder and oidy teacher of the 
school, was the only son of Rev. Dr. Cooper. He was 
a graduate of Dickinson College, and studied for the 
ministry, but owing to failing health, was obliged to 
abandon the ministry and take up farming. Having 
followed this vocation for a time, he conceived and car- 
i-ied out the idea of starting a classical school. For the 
])rofession which he chose, Mr. Cooper was admiral)ly 
adapted. He was universally and justly esteemed one 
of the best linguists of the day. His instruction was 
rudimental and thorough. He had himself been a pu- 
pil of James Ross, anther of the Latin Grammar, then 
generally used. Like Ross, he required his pupils to 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 217 

learn and apply with much exactness, the rules of gram- 
mar, and analyze and parse sentences and words, taken 
at random from different parts of the lesson. As a re- 
sult, so proficient in this respect, were they regarded, that 
when they presented themselves at any of the colleges 
for examination, the mere announcement of the name of 
their preceptor gave them a passport to entrance into the 
classes to which they aspired. 

Besides the superior scholarship of Mr. Cooper his 
character was so complete as to exert a most happy influ- 
ence upon the youth under his care. "He was," says 
Dr. D. B. McGinley, "one of the most amiable of men. 
I do not remember to have seen his temper ruffled, 
though the boys often tried him sorely. He was very 
courteous in manner and treated every one who ap- 
proached him with the utmost politeness. Even his 
correction of an error in recitation was so mild and gen- 
tle, as to bear with it a seeming apology." Soon after the 
commencement of the school it was well attended for one 
of its character, in a country place, and under a single 
teacher. Much of the time the small building was 
crowded, the students coming largely from abroad, all 
parts of the Cumberland valley being represented. 
Those who came from abroad were boarded and lodged 
in the family of Mr. Cooper, or found accommodations 
in the houses of the neighborhood. Many rode several 
miles each day on horse back from their homes. The 
school was kept up with almost no intermission until 
1832, when it was discontiued because of the extreme de- 
bility of Mr. Cooper. The moral, christian influence it 
exerted, had a highly elevating effect on the community 
and the Middle Spring church. It also sent out to the 



218 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

world scores of men who attained positions of useful- 
ness and influence, and many who reached distinction. 

Among the earlier students were, Samuel, William 
and James Woods, from near Carlisle, David and Jos- 
eph Trimble, living near Newburg, Wm. Henderson, 
M. D., David Wills, M. D., subsequently an eminent 
physician in Chillicothe, Ohio; Andrew P. Linn, Rev. 
James Smith, Alexander Sharp, D. D., Rev. John H. 
Kennedy, William McClure, of the Harrisburg bar; J. 
W. McCullough, D. D., James Williamson, pastor at 
Silver Spring ; Moses Williamson, pastor of the Cold 
Spring church; N. J. McKnight Williamson, an able 
Presbyterian minister; William H. McClure, an emi- 
nent judge in Pittsburg; Beattie, a Baptist minis- 
ter, and two cousins, bearing the name of Robert Scott, 

Mr. Cooper married Miss Kearsley and to them were 
born six children, Robert, Samuel, Jonathon, Sarah, 
married John Reynolds, of Roxbury; Jane, married 
John Smith, of Hopewell township; EHzabeth, married 
Mr. Stettinius, of Virginia. 

To Mrs. Cooper is due much of tJie success of the 
academy during the last ten years of its existence, when 
in her husband's declining health, she was able finan- 
cially and intellectually to maintain the influential status 
of the school. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 219 



CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS IN 1900. 



RULING ELDERS. 

W. A. Cox, W. C. Creamer, 

W. D. Means, Murray Fickes. 

Robert Peebles. 

TRUSTEES. 

A body of twelve members. 
W. A. Cox, President. W. S. Zeigler, Treasurer. 

W. D. McCune, Secretary. 

SABBATH SCHOOL AT MIDDLE SPRING. 

Rev. S. S. Wylie, Superintendent. 

W. D. McCune, Assistant Superintendent. 
Jennie White, Secretary. 

Calvin Creamer, Treasurer. 

SABBATH SCHOOL AT NEWBURG. 

Henry Wineman, Superintendent. 

SABBATH SCHOOL AT ORRSTOWN. 

Arthur Foglesonger, Superintendent. 

Christian Endeavor Society, Middle Spring, organized 

March 5, 1894. 
Horace Earner, President. ^Margai-et Burk, Secretary. 
John Goodyear, Treasurer. 

Junior Christian Endeavor Society, Middle Spring, or- 
ganized May 1, 1897. 
Jarnes Warren, President. 

Misses Clugston and Wylie, Teachers 



220 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Organized 1856. 

Mrs. Helen Stuart, President. Mary Quigley, Secretary. 

Maggie McClay, Treasurer. 

Home Missionary Society. 

Bertie Conner, President. Bertie Hollar, Secretary. 

Anna J. Peebles, Treasurer. 

Christian Endeavor Society, Newburg, organized March 
15, 1894. 

Bertie Conner, President. Sara Ramsey, Secretary. 

C. Long, Treasurer. 

Organist. 
Mrs. Helen Stuart. Held this position for 35 years. 

Choir ISIaster. 
W. D. Means. Held this position for 35 years. 




PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 221 

CHURCH RECEIPTS. 



Account of William Rodgeis, Treasurer, 
1783. £. s. 

March 16th. Rec'd of Charles Maclay, Sr., 

the sum of 
JNIarch 25th. Rec'd of John McKee, 
March 25th. Rec'd of Peter Dickey, 
April 11th. Rec'd of Andrew Thomson 
May 17th. Rec'd of Samuel Wherry, 
June 17th. Rec'd of John McKee, 
June 17th, Rec'd of David Wills, 
June 27th. Rec'd of Andrew Luckey, 
July 12th. Rec'd of Andrew Patterson, 
July 20th. Rec'd of John McKee, 
July oOth. Rec'd of Daniel Nevin, 

Re'cd of Thomas Montgomery, 
1784. 
May 3d. Rec'd of Alexander Long, 
May 4th. Rec'd of Gavin Morrow, 
May 11th. Rec'd of Richard Morrow, 
July 24th. Rec'd of Samuel Rippey, Jr., 
1785. 

Feb. 19th. Rec'd of William Montgomery, 
Feb, 21st. Rec'd of David McKinney, 
April 23rd. Rec'd of James Patterson, 

May 7th. Rec'd of Adam McCormick, 
June 16th. Rec'd of David Wills, 
Oct. 16th. Rec'd of Andrew Thompson, 
1786. 

Mar. 24th. Rec'd of Thomas Barr, 
May 15th. Rec'd of Francis Graham, 



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1 2 


6 


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6 


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4 6 


8 


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222 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

1786 

May 16th. Rec'd of Abraham Weir, 
June 16th. Rec'd of Thomas McClelland, 
June 19th. Rec'd of William Sterrett, 
June 19th. Rec'd of Francis Canipble, 
June 29th. Rec'd of Thomas McClelland, 
Aug. 5th. Rec'd of William Turner, 
Aug. 25th, Rec'd of Jas. and Benjamin 

Al worth, 
Sept. 7th. Rec'd of Thomas McCleland, 
Sept. 26th, Rec'd of Mary Montgomery, Sr., 

and daughter, 
Nov. 14th. Rec'd of John Maclay, Jr., 

1787. 
Feb. 18th. Rec'd of William Sterrett, 
April 4th, Rec'd of Thomas McCleland, 
April 27th. Rec'd of Archibald Cambridge, 

Rec'd of Abraham Smith, 
Nov. 27th. Rec'd ot Thomas Snodgrass, 

1786, 
April 16th. Rec'd of Mary Turner, 
Rec'd of John Knox, 
Rec'd of John Maclay, Jr., 
Rec'd of John Maclay in part of 

his subscription, 
Rec'd of William INIcClintock, 
1782. Cr. 

Feb. 27th, Paid James Atkins, the sum of 6 11 9 
1783. 

Paid ditto, 2 17 

Dec. 10th. Paid ditto, 9 6 7 

1784,Oct.22. Paid ditto, 2 14 2 



£. s. 


D. 


6 16 





8 





4 11 


3 


11 10 


9 


1 12 


6 


7 10 





6 12 


7 


2 3 


9 


' 1 2 


(> 


5 16 


2 


5 15 


3 


14 





6 15 


(> 


1 13 





2 18 


9 


6 2 


6 


7 


6 


3 19 


7 


8 




12 





PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 223 



£. S. D. 

1783, Apr. 2. Paid Gavin Morrow, 6 4 
. June 30tli. Paid Gedion Smith, 6 17 10 

July 24th. Paid ditto, 1 17 6 

1784, Aug. 23. Paid Alexander Smith, 3 8 3 

1785, Aug. 9. Paid William Hunter, 3 
Sept. 13th. Paid George Stinger, 2 10 9 
Sept. 17th. Paid Adam Weaver, 15 

Oct. 12th. Paid William Hunter, 2 5 

Dec. 15th. Paid Joseph Thomson, 17 6 

1786, Apr. 15. Paid Samuel Blyth, 5 12 6 
May 15th. Paid Francis Graham, 15 8 
Aug. 10th. Paid John Reynolds, Esq., 15 
Nov. 14th. Paid Francis Cain and Moore, 6 1 10 

1787, Feb. 18. Paid the Rev. Mr. Cooper, 15 
" Paid Laurence Clancy for nails, 4 6 
" Paid James Johnson for cutting 

withs and clearing a place for 

frameing the roof, 15 

" Paid for whiskey at raising roof, 10 
May 10th. Paid John Blair by order of 

of Hugh Alexander in part;of 

bond, 4 7 1 
" Paid Newman ctCulbertson, for 

31 bl. flaxseed, 18 4 
" Paid for 1 gallon rum at raising 

the gallery frame, 5 
•' Paid John Thomson, carptr. at 

sundry times to the amt 70 16 1 
" Paid James Cooper, carptr. at 

sundry times, to the amt. 45 2 
" Paid John Morrison for clearino- 



224 THE MIDDLE SPRING 

1787. £. s. D, 
ground where the new meet- 
ing house now stands, 12 
" By services done as a trustee, 12 10 

Paid John Snider for oil, 3 1 3 



Account of William Scott, treasurer; 

William Scott, in account with the Trustees of Mid- 
dlespring Congregation. 
1814, July. To surplus on bank stock, 1 

1814, Nov. To interest on bank stock, 

1815, May. To ditto on ditto, 

1815, Nov. To ditto on ditto, 

1816, May. To ditto on ditto, 

1816, Nov. To ditto on ditto, 

1817, May. To ditto on ditto, 

1817, Nov. To ditto on ditto, 

1818, May. To ditto on ditto, 

1818, Mov. To ditto on ditto, 

1819, May. To ditto on ditto, 33 00 
1817, Oct. 6. To ballance on collections. See 

Congi-egation Book, 4 00 

To cash received see Congregation Book, 975 24 



69 00 


18 


98 


29 


70 


35 00 


35 


20 


35 20 


53 


15 


38 50 


38 


50 


38 


50 



$ 1403 97 



To ballance due on the 1st of May 1819, $ 295 32 
Interest on this sum for 1.10 mo., 32 48 



Balance due 1st of March, 1821, $ 327 80 

Cr. 
1814, Sept. 19th. By cash paid to Chambers- 



burg bank on shares of 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 225 

stock held by the Con- 
gregation, $ 60 00 
1815, May 11th. By cash to ditto 110 00 

1815, Sept. 30th. By ditto to nitto, 110 00 

1816, Dec. 9th. By ditto to ditto. 220 00 
1816, By cash paid to sundry per- 
sons, see congregation B. 275 85 

By cash, being expenses attending lawsuit, 

attorney fees, &c., as per bill rendered, 221 80 

$ 997 65 

Ballance due to congregation, 406 o2 



I 1403 97 



By allowance made for arrearages of salary. 111 00 

Which sum taken from the ballaance above 
stated would leave |295 32, as per Dr. 
side. 
We the undersigned, a committee, appointed by the 
Trustees of Middlespring congregation to investigate and 
settle the accounts of William Scott, late Treasurer of 
said congregation, report that we have gone through the 
examination of the books of said Treasurer and it ap- 
pears that he is indebted to the said Trustees the sum of 
Three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty 
cents as stated above. Witness our hands this 5th day 
of March 1921. 

John Ma clay, 
James Linn, 
James Mckee. 



226 THE MIDDLE SPRING 



APPENDIX. 



The foregoing records have been carefully copied 
from the original Church books, some of which are yel- 
low with age, and the contents almost obliterated. This 
accounts for any unavoidable discrepancy in dates. The 
omission of names in the list of births and marriages, 
indicates neglect on the part of the pastors to record 
them. If mistakes occur in the tombstone inscriptions, 
they are due to the defaced condition of the markers, 
rendering the deciphering of them difficult, For gene- 
alogical purposes, the ages have been reduced from date 
of death, to ascertain time ol birth, and published ac- 
cordingly, instead of giving the number of years at 
date of death. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 227 

CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 

Sketch of the Church, by Rev. S. S, Wylie, 5 

Pastors of the Middle Spring Church, 28 

The Glebe, 37 

Church Buildino-s, 39 

Subscribers to the old Stone Church, 43 

Subscribers to the Pulpit Fund, 45 

Ruling Elders of the Church, 47 

Sons of the Church who entered the Ministry, 50 
Admissions during Pastorate of Rev. John Moody, 54 

Baptisms by Rev. John Moody, 66 

Marriages by Rev. John Moody, 107 

Baptisms by Rev. I. N. Hays, 128 

Marriages by Rev. I, N. Hays, 135 

Baptisms by Rev. D. K. Richardson, 139 

Marriages by Rev. D. K. Richardson, 141 

Baptisms by Rev. S. S. Wylie, 142 

Marriages by Rev. S. S. Wylie, 156 

Deaths during Pastorate of Rev. S. S. Wylie, 162 

The Graveyards, 173 

Tombstone Inscriptions, Upper Graveyard, 176 

Tombstone Inscriptions, Lower Graveyard, 194 

Tombstone Inscriptions, Hanna's Graveyard, 201 

INIiddle Spring in the Revolution, 206 

Hopewell Academy, 216 

Church Organizations, 219 

Church Receipts, 221 
Appendix, 



ERRATA. 

Baptisms of the following persons were not recorded by 

Rev. I. N. Hays during his pastorate. 

There may be other omissions, bnt these are all of which 

we have knowledge. 

Ouigley, Liberty, daughter of John. 

Quigley, Anna Margery, daughter of James and Elizabeth, 
born May lo, 1856. 

Ouigley, Mary Bell, daughter of James and Elizabeth, born 
February 26, 1858. 

Ouigley, Birdella Jane, daughter of James and Elizabeth, born 
December 16, 1862. 

Quigley, Jane McFarlane, daughter of James and Elizabeth, 
born September 16, 1864. 

Ouigley, Ida Bell, daughter of Robert and Ellen, born Octo- 
ber 13, 1858. 
Since the tombstone inscriptions were copied, a marker has 

been erected to the memory of James S. Quigley, born Janu- 
ary 20, 1820, died August 9, 1892. 




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